Tomorrow, Terra Soft will officially announce the construction of the world’s first Cell-based supercomputing cluster. Terra Soft will use the test cluster ‘E.coli’ to conduct advanced software development, optimization, and testing with emphasis on Y-HPC and Y-Bio applied to the Cell Broadband Engine. The production cluster ‘Amoeba’ will be made available to select University and Department of Energy laboratories to further life sciences research. The clusters will incorporate, in part, Cell-based PS3 systems.
Terra Soft To Build World’s First Cell-Based Supercomputer
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Sounds like a prototype for the Sony PS100..
When Apple announced leaving PPC for Intel, many thought Terra Soft Solutions’ Yellow Dog Linux (PPC only) was dead, but they keep coming back again and again, no matter what is thrown at them!
BTW there is a video of them constricting the new place at http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/showcase/video/
the article mentions YDL 5.0, but their page is still listing 4.1. anyone know when 5 is due out?
According to one of the articles I read on this, it sounds like it will come out in November.
At first I read that as “Cell-phone based supercomputer.”
Now that would have been an exercise in pointlessness
Well, if they used veriz*n they’d have that huge network of people behind it.
Hello? Is this thing on? Can you hear me now?
… did they call it E. coli? Don’t they know E. coli was first isolated from a students bottom (coli is latin for “of the colon”)?