Sunday, June 04, 2006
HPC and the Cell Processor
It's no secret that IBM has plans to utilize the Cell processor for more than game consoles. Although I don't expect to find a Cell processor in System i, I think you can certainly expect to find Cell chips applied to High Performance Computing (HPC).
The potential for Cell in HPC was recently impressively demonstrated in a paper written by scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A good summary of the paper, as well as a link to the full paper, can be read at http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/671376.html.
There is also a discussion of the paper at RWT.
