IBM Touts Supercomputers for Enterprise

Stony Stevenson writes "IBM has announced an initiative to offer smaller versions of its high-performance computers to enterprise customers. The first new machine is a QS22 BladeCenter server powered by a Cell processor. Developed to power gaming systems, the Cell chip has also garnered interest from the supercomputing community owing to its ability to handle large amounts of floating point calculations. IBM hopes that the chips, which currently power climate modeling and other traditional supercomputing tasks, will also appeal to customers ranging from financial analysis firms to animation studios."

Oblig..

[mrbluze]

But is it Vista capable?

Re:Oblig..

[mrbluze]

owing to its ability to handle large amounts of floating point calculations

Oh, so you can't run Excel on it.

Flamage

[explosivejared]

Developed to power gaming systems, the Cell chip...

That's just what we need to introduce to enterprise computing, the flame wars and invectives of the console world.

Admin #1 cell totally rockzorz!!!11!!!1 u n00bs using virtualization are in the past
Admin #2 IBM SUCKS!!! YOU KNOW IT!!! YOUR WHOLE BUSINESS IS TOTALLY GAY FOR THEM!!!!

Let me guess

[iminplaya]

LCARS

no I'm not yelling, you dillhole

Re:Oblig..

[ozmanjusri]

Oh, so you can't run Excel on it.

You can run 65,535 or 100,000 instances of it, whichever comes first.

Re:Oblig..

[mrbluze]

You can run 65,535 or 100,000 instances of it, whichever comes first.

And then clean up the mess afterwards... ewwww!

Re:Oblig..

[RuBLed]

And reversed the polarity...

Re:Let me guess

[quanticle]

Heh. Like with you, the first thing that popped into my head upon reading the headline was, "Wait, IBM make supercomputers for starships now? Since when?"

Scotty was heard to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

SCOTTY: Computer. Computer! Hello computer!

SAM PALMISANO: Uh, just use the keyboard.

SCOTTY: Keyboard... how quaint.

Re:Oblig..

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the proper obligatory question should be, "Can it run LCARS?"

Re:Which Enterprise?

[compro01]

N-C-C one seven oh one. no bloody A, B, C, or D.

Re:Oblig..

[mrbluze]

What am I doing wrong because, hard as I try, I am unable to get my Vista box to crash. Please let me know what I have to do to get it to crash.

It obviously takes quite a number of instructions before Vista will crash. Perhaps your processor is too slow and you should upgrade to the above mentioned supercomputer.

Re:Which Enterprise?

[RuBLed]

You make it sound like it's a bad thing...