IBM Shows Cell Blade In Action
News IBM has showed off a prototype blade server based on the Cell processor in action this week. The company demonstrated the Cell blade server running visualisation software to display real-time three-dimensional video footage of a beating heart at...
[March 10, 2006, 10:05]
PlayStation Chip Sharpens IBM's BladeCenter
News IBM introduced its overhauled blade server line on Wednesday, upgrading its core components and touting forthcoming options based on Xeon, PowerPC and Cell chips at the same time. IBM believes the Cell blade will be useful for digital animation...
[February 9, 2006, 8:25]
IBM Puts Cell Chip To Work In Supercomputer
News IBM has delivered a "supercomputer-like" blade system based on the Cell processor it co-designed for Sony's PlayStation. High-performance computing systems built from blade systems based on the Cell Broadband Engine have the potential to change the...
[September 13, 2006, 16:20]
IBM Brings Fresh Hardware Options To Clusters
News The new options, available from 17 November, are the ClearSpeed computation accelerator cards and the QS20 blade servers using the Cell Broadband Engine processor, according to an announcement sent to customers.
[November 1, 2006, 9:19]
Photos: Around CeBIT
News IBM showed a prototype Cell-based blade server. A 300mm Cell processor wafer with 224 dies and 9 cores per die. ZDNet UK news editor Graeme Wearden contemplates the joys of 27 exhibition halls and 6,262 exhibitors occupying 310,412 square metres of...
[March 10, 2006, 9:25]
CeBIT 2006: IT Industry Turns To Europe
News Cell chip, which it co-designed: this will include a demonstration of some prototype Cell blade servers running visualisation software using massive amounts of scientific and other data. The word from Hanover is that Antig Technology and AVC...
[March 6, 2006, 12:40]
Spansion Sees Profits In Flash Memory's Future
News Some NAND makers are now trying to push their products into notebooks and blade servers, displacing hard drives. Once you get down to a certain cell size, you have real problems with conventional flash," said Jim Handy, president of analysis firm...
[November 29, 2007, 14:05]
IBM Wins Bid To Build Hybrid Supercomputer
News A single chassis can accommodate both general-purpose Opteron blade servers and Cell-based accelerator systems. IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional Opteron chips but also the Cell...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
First Beta Of Banias Chip Ready
News Although it's designed for notebooks, the chip will also appear in thin "blade" servers. Boosting this trend in 2003 will be a new chip from Intel that combines newer "2.5G" GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) cell phone communication abilities...
[April 19, 2002, 15:37]
IBM Readies Power6 Blades For Next Year
News IBM's BladeCenter chassis can accommodate either 14 "single-wide" blade servers or seven "double-wide" models, such as those with four Xeon processors or two Cell processors. Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
