Comments on: Welcome to the PS3 Data Center

By: SiCortex Co-Founder on Intel and Shutting Down

SiCortex Co-Founder on Intel and Shutting Down — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:11:36 +0000

[...] supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and computers taking advantage of GPUs or architectures like IBM’s Cell for parallel computing jobs, I should really know [...]

By: Microsoft and Proprietary Chips : Beyond Search

Microsoft and Proprietary Chips : Beyond Search — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:10:47 +0000

[...] expending as many watts, they are experimenting with different kinds of processors that may be better-suited to a particular task, such as using graphics processors for Monte Carlo [...]

By: Is Microsoft Turning Away From Commodity Servers?

Is Microsoft Turning Away From Commodity Servers? — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:59:50 +0000

[...] expending as many watts, they are experimenting with different kinds of processors that may be better-suited to a particular task, such as using graphics processors for Monte Carlo simulations. This means that, on these [...]

By: Hybrid Computers Will Hide in the Cloud

Hybrid Computers Will Hide in the Cloud — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:35:29 +0000

[...] makes one of these “expert” chips, called the Cell, which it’s pushing into data centers and high-performance computing. Other chip vendors such as Texas Instruments or Tensilica, which are pushing DSPs for specialty [...]

By: TI Wants to Use DSPs for Low-power Computing

TI Wants to Use DSPs for Low-power Computing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:29:31 +0000

[...] March 5, 2009 | 10:28 AM PT | 0 comments Texas Instruments is looking to hop on the trend of using non x86 processors in the data center, according to Kathy Brown, general manager of the company’s wireless base station [...]

By: The End of x86 Domination: AMD Is Cool With That

The End of x86 Domination: AMD Is Cool With That — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:29:50 +0000

[...] side, the x86 architecture doesn’t seem to be in danger of losing much ground, (despite the use of accelerator chips in high-performance computing as well as for certain specialized jobs), but the focus on power is waning. Dessau spoke of a shift [...]

By: IBM’s Cell Chip Gets Another Home: TV - GigaOM

IBM’s Cell Chip Gets Another Home: TV - GigaOM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:48:02 +0000

[...] AMD x86 chips in RoadRunner, the fastest supercomputer ever built. Meanwhile, engineers started putting it in blade servers for high-performance computing. Now IBM says it will return to its entertainment roots in a Toshiba television due out next year, [...]

By: John White

John White — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:36:33 +0000

hey, that’s Don Grice!

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:19:27 +0000

The elephant in the room is Intel’s forthcoming Larrabee, which will be a GPU-style processor that runs x86 instructions. Can these non-x86 solutions gain enough of a foothold that they won’t be displaced by Larrabee? With Larrabee due by 2010, does it make sense to spend a lot of money developing/porting to a non-x86 platform?

By: Rich Miller

Rich Miller — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:33:50 +0000

Last year Sony built a cluster of rack-mounted PlayStation 3s to power an online version of its WarHawk game:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Aug/09/playstation_3_clusters_in_the_data_center.html