IBM BladeCenter QS22 079341G Manuale Utente
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079341G
IBM BladeCenter QS22
Premier blade for double precision floating point workloads
Highlights
■ Third generation blade system
based on an enhanced version
of the Cell Broadband Engine™
Architecture
IBM PowerXCell™ 8i processor,
offering five times the double
precision performance of the
previous Cell/B.E. processor
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■ High-performance blade solu-
tion for selected workloads
Significant performance accel-
eration of target workloads
such as rendering and medical
imaging
Up to 32 GB of processor
memory
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The IBM BladeCenter® QS22 is
based on the innovative multi-core
IBM PowerXCell 8i processor, a new
generation processor based on the
Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.)
Architecture. Offering extraordinary dou-
ble precision floating point processing
power, the QS22 can yield application
results faster and with more fidelity. This
can enable organizations to get infor-
mation faster to facilitate important
business decisions.
For many years, organizations have
relied on performance gains from
increasing clock speeds of “traditional”
microprocessor architectures. However,
in recent years this approach has been
challenged by the physical limitations of
semiconductors and by traditional
processor architecture implementations.
Issues with power consumption, heat
dissipation and memory latencies have
led to diminishing returns on perform-
ance. High performance computing
(HPC) applications such as digital con-
tent creation, electronic design automa-
tion, image and signal processing,
financial algorithms, scientific research,