Your everyday Computer

[StrangleHold]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208402904


IBM calls Roadrunner a hybrid supercomputer. It combines 12,960 IBM Cell chips, which power Sony's PlayStation 3 video game machine, with 6,948 dual core AMD Opteron chips and 80 terabytes of memory. It runs Red Hat Linux.

 

[fortyways]

But can it run Crysis?

 

[Bob Jeffery]

it Runs Red Hat Linux.

Lool!!!!
It will run crysis on all low...

 

[just a noob]

i dont see why they combine those cell chips with the opterons?