IBM offers the first Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) processor-based blade — the IBM BladeCenter QS20 server.
This new blade is designed for businesses that desire dense computing power and unique capabilities of the Cell BE processor to tackle tasks involving graphic-intensive, numeric applications and is available for purchase through the IBM System Cluster 1350.
The IBM BladeCenter QS20 is a Cell BE-based blade system designed for businesses that can benefit from high performance computing power and the unique capabilities of the Cell BE processor to run graphic-intensive applications and is especially suitable for computationally intense, high performance workloads across a number of industries including digital media, medical imaging, aerospace, defense and communications.
The IBM BladeCenter QS20 extends and deepens IBM Power Architecture technology and is complementary to our existing rack-optimized and blade server products based on Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, and IBM POWER processors. |