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Originally Posted by dillonthebunny
still.. bloody good!
i sent that link to my mate who works for City Bank, and they have done exactly this! they had the Cell chip way before any PS3 was on the self.. and thats what they have used it for, bunged a load of cell chips in and stood back and watched it glow.
(ok, at this point.. you see that im not that technical.. but im trying).
Apparently clustered and calculating like a b'stad all the figures they need. I remember him at the time banging on about how incredible it was...
ps... i think Sega's computer is probably more powerful...  lol |
You sure your friend knows what he is talking about? For some reason i find it hard to believe that your friend says Citi Bank just got the Cell Chips. I know IBM is implemented Cell Chips into there new Blade Servers but i have yet to hear them being released.
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Blade server
IBM has presented the QS20 blade server based on two Cell processors, originally running the 2.6.11 Linux kernel.[18] The prototypes ran at 2.4GHz. Current systems run at 3.2 GHz, providing 205 GFLOPS single-precision floating point performance per CPU (or 410 GFLOPS per board). IBM also expects to arrange seven blades in a single rackmount chassis (similar to their BladeCenter product line) for a total performance of 2.8 TFLOPS (or 284 GFLOPS in double precision) per chassis. However, the performance numbers released by IBM are still theoretical, and the real-world performance could be significantly different from theoretical expectations.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. has released blades, conventional rack servers and PCI Express accelerator boards with Cell processors.
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The first major commercial application of Cell was in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console. Mercury Computer Systems has a dual Cell server, a dual Cell blade configuration, a rugged computer and a PCI Express accelerator board available in different stages of production. Toshiba has announced plans to incorporate Cell in high definition television sets. Exotic features such as the XDR memory subsystem and coherent EIB interconnect[2] appear to position Cell for future applications in the supercomputing space to exploit the Cell processor's prowess in floating point kernels.
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For some reason i would think if Citi Bank was doing what you said it would be known.