IBM to use Cell in Blade Servers

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 9, 2006 @05:47AM 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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Re:hardware abstraction? by AKAImBatman · 2006-02-09 06:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Would it be possible to write some kind of virtualization that would present an easy-to-develop-on layer?

You know, that's a really good idea!

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This means.. by f8l_0e · 2006-02-09 07:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This means exactly jack squat to me until I can buy one. Where, when, and how much. And no, I didn't RTFA.