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IBM touts supercomputers for the enterprise
Cell-based high-performance machines aimed at new markets
Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com14 May 2008
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IBM has announced an initiative to offer smaller versions of its
high-performance computers to enterprise customers.
The first new machine is a QS22 BladeCenter server powered by a Cell
processor.
Developed to power gaming systems, the Cell chip has also garnered interest
from the supercomputing community owing to its ability to handle large amounts
of floating point calculations.
IBM hopes that the chips, which currently power climate modelling and other
traditional supercomputing tasks, will also appeal to customers ranging from
financial analysis firms to animation studios.
To further spark interest in the new systems, IBM has posted an SDK for
developers looking to optimise code for the Cell processor.
IBM sees the high-performance systems eventually replacing large data centres
with smaller virtualised systems.
"The QS22 is a technological leap over the physical limitations of
traditional processors," said Jim Comfort, vice president of IBM's Systems
& Technology Group.
IBM plans to release the QS22 BladeCenter server next month.
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