IBM Makes First Cell Computer Generally Available

"IBM Makes First Cell Computer Generally Available
　Cell-Based BladeCenter System Poised to Boost Performance for
　New Applications in Aerospace, Oil & Gas and Medical Industries", 12 Sep 2006
　http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20249.wss
　"IBM today announced that it is making its first computing system based on the
　 Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) generally available on a global basis, with early adopters
　 such as University of Manchester, RapidMind, Inc. and Fraunhofer Institute deploying
　 compute-intensive applications on early ship versions."

　"The IBM BladeCenter QS20 is a Cell BE-based blade system designed for businesses
　 that can benefit from high performance computing power and the unique capabilities of
　 the Cell BE processor to run graphic-intensive applications."

IBM BladeCenter QS20
　http://www.ibm.com/technology/splash/qs20/
　Double-wide blade server for IBM BladeCenter
　3.2GHz Cell BE Processors
　Two standard, each with one PPE and eight SPE processing elements
　512KB per Cell BE Processo, plus 256KB of local store memory for each SPE
　1GB (512MB per processor)
　40GB IDE HDD
　Dual Gigabit Ethernet
　None supported for I/O Upgrade
　1 or 2 InfiniBand 4 x adapter connected via PCI-Express
　Opereting Systems; Fedora core 5-based Linux available
　　http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/
　IBM BladeCenter QS20 datasheet, September 2006(PDFファイル)
　IBM Cell BE Processor based ystems Whitepape, September 2006 2006(PDFファイル)

developerWorks > Power Architecture technology >
　Cell Broadband Engine resource center
　http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
Cell Broadband Engine; Support Decumentation
　http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/Cell_Broadband_Engine
PWOER ORG; Cell Developer's Corner
　http://www.power.org/resources/devcorner/cellcorner
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Cell Broadband Engine Links V [06/09/08 --], 2006-09-08
　"IBM to Build World's First Cell Broadband Engine Based Supercomputer", 06 Sep 2006
Cell Broadband Engine Links IV [06/09/06: Full], 2006-06-17
Cell Broadband Engine Links III [06/06/07: Full], 2006-04-18
Cell Broadband Engine Links II [06/04/10: Full], 2006-03-18
Cell Broadband Engine Links I [06/02/26:Full], 2006-02-26
Mercury: Cell Accelerator Board (2.8 GHz, PCI-e16), 2006-08-01
Mercury: Cell Technology Evaluation Systems, 2006-01-11
Cell Broadband Engine SDK 1.1 released, 2006/07/14, 2006-07-15