IBM’s Cell Processor: Not Just for PS3 Anymore
IBM has begun to distribute it’s new line of high-powered QS20 Blade Servers based on the same Cell Processor that will be used in the upcoming PS3.
Today IBM announced a new line of high-powered QS20 Blade Servers intended for use in seismic research, encryption, digital image rendering and military surveillance applications. Each QS20 will include two nine-cored Cell Processors clocked at 3.2Ghz apiece, which were developed by IBM along with Sony and Toshiba for Sony’s upcoming Playstation 3 console, among other things. Toshiba will use cell processors for HDTV applications, and it’s clear what IBM’s intentions are for the Cell. But as Playstation 3 isn’t scheduled for release until November, the QS20 will mark the first application in which the highly-touted Cell will be available to consumers. The QS20s will run on Red Hat’s Fedora Core 5 version of Linux.
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