Is there any device aside from the PS3 that currently utilizes the Cell processor?”
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 appear to position Cell for future applications in the supercomputing space to exploit the Cell processor’s prowess in floating point kernels. Here is more info on current and possible applications other than the PS3: Blade server IBM has presented the QS20 blade server based on two Cell processors, originally running the 2.6.11 Linux kernel. 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 TFL
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