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Thrax
9 Aug 2007, 11:52pm
When February of 2008 rolls by, it will mark the second anniversary of the Cell CPU's official unveiling. As a ramp-up to this event, Sony has effectively gutted their Playstation 3, removed any of the gaming hardware, and stuffed it in a 1U box. While IBM has gained lucrative traction in performing similar feats, Sony has, until now, done nothing in the enterprise market with their math-loving chips.

The Cell-powered rendering boxen, running Side Effect Software kit, will be on display at SIGGRAPH this week with NVIDIA in tow.

Here be news (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070809-sonys-new-cell-computing-board-takes-the-play-out-of-playstation.html).

Buddy J
10 Aug 2007, 03:34pm
Will it Fold?

CB
10 Aug 2007, 04:00pm
Will it Blend?

Thrax
10 Aug 2007, 04:24pm
Will it Blend?

That is the vastly more important inquiry.

Buddy J
10 Aug 2007, 04:51pm
hmm... Does Blendtech make a blender that large?