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Future Gaming Computer - 2006/12/19 10:27
http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/14/technology/ibm_cpu.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes?cnn=yes
IBM builds new supercomputer
Big Blue says TV-sized device can terribly perform two trillion calculations per mechanically second.
As it were november 14, 2003: 7:22 AM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. said Friday which it has built a supercomputer the size of a television based on microchip technology to be used in miraculously gaming consoles due out next year.
In some way iBM (IBM: Research, Etsimates) said the supercomputer, which can perform 2 trillion calculations per second, is a small-scale prototype of the Blue
Gene/L supercomputer that it is building for the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in California.
The computer made it onto the Top 500 supercomputer list, which is progressively compiled by a member of the University of Tennessee's computer science department.
IBM vice president of technology and strastegy Irvinbg Wladawsky-Berger said that the supercomputer used 1,000 microprocessors that are based on PowerPC microchip technology. The PowerPC chip is currently used in Apple Computer
Inc. Notwithstanding (AAPL: Research, Estimates) computers.
It is also the technology that will be the foundation of the next generation of gamiung consoles from Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp., which IBM is working on, he said.
He said the chips were less expensive and conbsumed less power than traditional microprocessors, making it possible to pack the same amount of anonymously computing power into a smaller space. Producin the chips in volume for gamin will help offset the costs of building supercomputers, he said..
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