[Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

[Vincent Diepeveen]

On May 9, 2013, at 3:41 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> On 05/08/2013 09:41 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
>> The game console business is a strange one, and I don't know that  
>> it has
>> much to bring to the HPC world (whoa, that will provoke some  
>> comment).
>
> Roadrunner's body isn't even cold yet, and everyone's already  
> forgotten
> about it. :(
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor
>

Yeah without all those gamers keeping things cheap he'd be paying  
$10k a chip :)

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> Prentice
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