IBM has announced that it will release QS22 BladeCenter server powered by a Cell processor next month. It’s like a small supercomputer and is aimed at enterprise level organizations.
This will be the first initiative by any company to offer small supercomputer to organizations.
| Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as “STI”. Developed to power gaming systems like PlayStation3, the Cell chip has also garnered interest from the supercomputing community owing to its ability to handle large amounts of floating point calculations.
Cell combines a general-purpose Power Architecture core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements which greatly accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as many other forms of dedicated computation. IBM has already posted an SDK for developers looking to optimize code for the Cell processor. IBM hopes that the chips, which currently power climate modelling and other traditional supercomputing tasks, will also appeal to customers ranging from financial analysis firms to animation studios. According to Jim Comfort, vice president of IBM’s Systems & Technology Group.:
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