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!
;)

[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.

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!

[Lagu]

Blackheath!

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

[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!

Your humor is out of this world, Blackheath!

The IBM BE processor white pages here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/spl...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 Up to 6.4 TFLOPS in a single BladeCenter H chassis and 25.8 TFLOPS in a standard 42U rack