IBM QS20

[Strongbow]

It's started, the advent of the Cell processor has begun!

IBM have just released their QS20 blade based on 2 x 3.2GHz Cell processors rated at ~410Gigaflops :shock: with a maximum of 7 of these in a BladeCenter chassis you'll get 2.8Teraflops!!! :shock::shock: and then fill a rack up with these Bladecenters and you'll get ~17Teraflops :shock: :shock: :shock:

They will currently run happily with Fedora 5 Linux so they'll be BOINC'able :D

Each blade costs RRP$18,995 so start saving!

http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/splash/qs20/

Needless to say I've been working out how to fund a rack load of these and have decided to sell my Wife and kids to the highest bidder on ebay - once they're outta the way I'll sell the house and cars!
;) :lol:

[mitchellds]

awsome. I wanted that new Playstation 3 for the same cell processor setup, but thats been delayed for manfacturing. That had the same 7 cell processor setup. Folding@home was developing a client to run on this puppy.

[Steve Lux]

Do the wife and kids come with your present Boincing setup? If so send pictures of the setup.

[Strongbow]

Do the wife and kids come with your present Boincing setup? If so send pictures of the setup.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm keeping my present Boincing setup! ...however the youngest kid is milk cooled and the other has been overclocked a bit too much and often runs at 110% for 12hours a day ...the Wife!!! well lets just say she has volatile memory but has a great general purpose instruction set! :lol: :lol:

[Lagu]

Blackheath!

Your decribe of your family is really funny. Ha, Ha :lol:

[Nflight]

I'm keeping my present Boincing setup! ...however the youngest kid is milk cooled and the other has been overclocked a bit too much and often runs at 110% for 12hours a day ...the Wife!!! well lets just say she has volatile memory but has a great general purpose instruction set! :lol: :lol:

Your humor is out of this world, Blackheath!

The IBM BE processor white pages here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/splash/qs20/pdf/cell_be_systems_whitepaper.pdf
I especially liked the photograph on page 6, similar to the x86 NOT!

[rabitguy]

I just bought 9 QS20s and 1 QS21 on eBay for the price of a couple of Playstation3s, but now I'm looking at costs for what I need to get these to be fully operating (bladecenter chassis, infiniband cables and switche, at least 4x 2000-watt power, et al)...

So...

Still looking to trade the wife and kids? :)

[Danish Dynamite]

i wasn't able to find specs for qs20 but found specs for qs21 (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/qs21/features.html) Up to 6.4 TFLOPS in a single BladeCenter H chassis and 25.8 TFLOPS in a standard 42U rack