IBM est en train de preparer une commande pour le "Los Alamos national laboratory" (pour les inculte c´est la ou a ete inventé la bombe nucleaire, un endroit ou l´on trouve geenralement les plus puissant supercalculateur) pour construire le prochain plus puissant supercalculateur au monde et ils vont proposer une machine hybride qui integre des Cell au coté des Opterons
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6112439.html
- "IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional Opteron chips but also the Cell processor used in the Sony Playstation, CNET News.com has learned.
The supercomputer, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be the world´s fastest machine and is designed to sustain a performance level of a "petaflop," or 1 quadrillion calculations per second, according to Pete Domenici, a Republican senator from New Mexico, where the nuclear weapons lab is located. Bidding for the system opened in May, when a Congressional subcommittee allocated $35 million for the first phase of the project, Domenici said. "
domage que IBM n´a pas encore de Cell DP (flottant double precision) sinon je suis sure qu´il porposerait aussi des supercalculateurs uniquement a base de Cell