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  • IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips

    Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene.

  • Linux gets built-in Cell processor support

    Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered databases and improves how the open-source operating system runs on multiprocessor systems.

  • PlayStation 3 chip has split personality

    The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation video game machine will have nine processor cores and run faster than 4GHz, the chip's designers revealed on Monday.

  • PlayStation 3 chip to power supercomputers

    Designers say that the 'Cell' chip represents the 'convergence between what we think of as supercomputing and what we use in the entertainment space'.

  • PlayStation 3 chip to arrive in 2005

    Sony said it is readying a test production line for the Cell processor, which is ultimately planned to power everything from the PlayStation 3 to IBM servers.

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