"Well one could look at the blade server as the race car and look at the Cell processor as the engine. However, if you open up the hood, you will discover that there are literally nine engines as opposed to two or four. So having these nine engines provides a new level of performance that is unrealizable today with current technology."
The servers will run the Linux operating system. And that may lead to desktop systems that use the Cell processor as well. Dave Turek is IBM's VP of Deep Computing…
"And our expectation, by the way, is that this will penetrate the market just like any other innovative technology. There'll be a cadre of early adopters who will be characterized by people who have dramatic computational needs, who have a lot of in house capability to make use of new technology. And as they blaze the trail by demonstrating the utility of this kind of technology, you get the next wave of followers that will really drive this dramatically into the market place."
IBM has big plans for selling the Cell. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.