Big Blue announced it would use the Cell processor designed by it, Sony and Toshiba in a range of high end servers. Applications that need good processing power and can render graphics are the target of Big Blue's desire. The first systems will become available in the third quarter of this year.
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"It also remains to be seen how keen software vendors are to redesign their apps to fit them to the Cell's peculiar memory model."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060208_0...
"Raytheon plans on using Cell in its entire family of sensor-based products."
Is just one example.
Sony,Toshiba,IBM,Mercury System,Raytheon are just the first batch of know companies migrating to Cell.
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That makes a lot of sense for Raytheon, given that they likely need Cell to do a lot of signal processing in an embedded sensor application. However, that amounts to using Cell as a glorified DSP. Where are all the programmers rushing to use Cell in general-purpose applications? When is Adobe going to release Photoshop Cell Edition?
Edited 2006-02-08 23:54
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2005-07-06
Presumably IBM has ported Linux to Cell?
Yes. With a pseudo file system for accessing the SPEs.
This is a first gen chip with a brand new OS port. This does not sound like a recipe for high reliability right out of the box.
Good point. It also remains to be seen how keen software vendors are to redesign their apps to fit them to the Cell's peculiar memory model.