So the Games chip is now going to something very useful in our National Labs.
To: ShadowAce
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This is a good pairing, with IBM intimately aware of both processors due to partnership agreements.
What I like to see is that the symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) capabilities are all on very powerful processors in their own right.
This is technically not a "massively parallel" computer because the processors are not made with parallelism-based architecture. The difference amounts to the granularity of the processes and the ability of each processor to natively support parallel assembler constructs.
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