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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. First blade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hack me I'm cheap

  2. PLEASE READ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Increasingly Popular?! by JackL · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Straight from the linked article:

    Before the announcement yesterday, Cell's only assignment outside of Sony and Toshiba had been specialized medical and defence computers made by Mercury Computing Systems Inc.

    Hardly seems increasingly popular to me.

    Jack

  4. Re:hardware abstraction? by AKAImBatman · · 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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  5. MOD PARENT REDUNDANT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    thanks

  6. This means.. by f8l_0e · · 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.

  7. Interesting idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My wang is so large that I slayed thirty head of oxen with it in an hour last week.