IBM demonstrated a blade server board based on the Cell architecture at the E3 show this week, and reportedly plans to sell the boards in rack-based server systems, according to The Register in the UK.
Already designed into next year's Sony Playstation 3, IBM and partner Toshiba are looking for more uses -- to keep IBM's East Fishkill, NY $3 billion fabrication facility busy.
The engineering prototype Cell blade generates 400 Mflops with two onboard cell chips running Linux. With this level of floating point, expect IBM to target scientific, military, academic, and life sciences applications. (And yes, Jack, http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_48460.html would do great with a couple of these blades).
-- Peter S. Kastner
[UPDATE:link to the OnComputers Seti Page, MissM]
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