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Cell-based Server Blade Demonstrated

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the showing-it-off dept.

slashflood writes "Only a few clients in a hotel room near Los Angeles had the chance to see the first Cell based server blade running Linux 2.6.11. 'We demonstrated the prototype to show that Cell continues to mature. The product is expected to have several times higher performance compared to conventional servers,' said an IBM engineer."

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  1. Re:Interesting quote from the article by damiam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sony's 2TFlops number for the PS3 includes the NVidia graphics chip, which has an insanely high FLOPS count but isn't really useful for general-purpose computation.

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  2. Re:Very promising technology= investment opportuni by soricine · · Score: 5, Informative

    After you've read Blatchford's write-up, read this for a reality check:

    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050124-4551 .html

    It uses such terms as 'hogwash' and 'wild-eyed and completely unsubstantiated claims'. Ouch.

  3. Re:I'm just curious by Michael+Hunt · · Score: 4, Informative

    'factoring prime numbers'?

    You mean deriving the factors of products of primes, right?

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  4. It's not Sony's hype by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    IBM designed the Cell