UMBC, IBM team up to create Cell-based supercomputer

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Andir3.0 @ Sep 25th 2007 6:57PM

You couldn't through XP on there anyway. The kernel only supports x86 processors.

And the Cell was made explicitly to to streaming floating point calculations (which games can get a great benefit from if used right, since pretty much all 3D done today is floating point.)

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