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IBM to use Cell in Blade Servers

Posted by Zonk on from the ps3-gets-some-siblings dept.

taskforce writes "IBM announced on Wednesday that it would be putting versions of its Cell processor inside its increasingly popular low-power blade servers by this summer. From the article: 'For Cell to gain wide acceptance, IBM needs to spur outside programmers to write software that takes advantage of Cell's prowess. That could prove more challenging than usual because Cell's architecture is so different. IBM hopes this summer's release of the Cell-based servers kick-starts work by third-party programmers.'" Also covered in a PCPro article.

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  1. Sun to use new chips by db32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sun Microsystems has decided to include the Gohan chip to combat IBM's Cell chips.

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  2. cell cells itself by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Juhi Jotwani, IBM's director of Blade Center and xSeries solutions, holds the company's new Cell processor during a presentation yesterday in New York.

    She said, "Come on, juh know jouwant it!"

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  3. Who woulda thunk it? by d3ac0n · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blades in Cells are usually a Bad Thing. Apparently Cells in Blades are a good thing! Go figure...

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  4. Re:Increasingly Popular?! by psbrogna · · Score: 4, Funny

    Marketing people are quick to describe the 0 to >0 transition as "increasingly popular". Of course the rest of the world considers it statistical noise. : )

  5. Re:Exciting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I'm done, I pull it out and play.

    i didn't need to know that.

  6. But wait by Pakaran2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Won't the Cell reception be poor inside the metal cabinets?

    *looks bright*

  7. Re:Big Difference Between Itanium and Cell by Skowronek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Itanium offers such a giant increase in performance (for some applications) compared to rival RISC products that you will see people investing time and money to take advantage of it. In addition, with Intel, SGI and HP all with product plans and thus the related volume and eco-system surrounding development tools, etc., I think the Itanium is positioned far better than Alpha to succeed.

    D'oh.

  8. Re:Why SPEs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because the PPEs are not as synergistic as the SPEs. That's why they call them Synergistic Processing Units instead of DSPs or APUs. Sony/IBM needed more synergy so they made one PPE with 7 "yes men" coprocessors.

  9. Re:Big Difference Between Itanium and Cell by networkBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Parent not funny, it's insightful!
    -nB

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  10. Re:Big Difference Between Itanium and Cell by rocketpig · · Score: 2, Funny

    One Cell to rule them all, One Cell to find them, One Cell to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.