IBM Cell HPC Blades Launched
IBM Cell HPC Blades Launched PDF Print E-mail
Written by Chris Tom   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:17
The cell processor was hyped a lot. In fact overhyped. Sony pulled an Apple on IBM. Way to go guys. The facts are they run hot. You can tell from any PS3 you put your hand behind. They are also hard to code for. This explains why many games come out for PC and 360 before they hit the PS3. They are good at folding at home, but compare a 360 side to side with a PS3 running the same game and you see worse quality and slower frame rates. Ok, well, maybe they are making some progress though on the most hyped chip that Steve Jobs isn't lying about. The Inquirer says that IBM has a new cell blade for the HPC market. That makes some sense at least. Cleary gaming is not the best purpose for cell. HPC works better with it. Notice how IBM isn't hyping the living hell out of it. Apple and Sony could learn from this, but they are chock full of liars.

The Bladecenter QS22 systems will run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and include IBM's open sauce Eclipse development environment. IBM claims its new QS22 systems can be integrated with x86 based servers in customers' data centers. A 42U rack will hold up 56 QS22 blade servers capable of delivering up to 25.8 teraflops of computing torque.