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IBM BladeCenter QS22

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IBM’s new Bladcenter QS22 is aimed at data centers with heavy numbers crunching requirements. For companies with high-end computational requirements, the new IBM BladeCenter QS22 offers definite performance advantages.

The BladeCenter QS22 is powered by PowerXCell 8i processors. The chips are the latest built on the Cell microprocessor architecture, jointly developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba to power demanding gaming applications. The processors in the QS22 are five times the speed of the original Cell processor and have 16 times more memory, IBM said.

The new blade runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the primary operating system and includes the open source development environment Eclipse. IBM has released an upgrade of its software development kit for Multicore Acceleration v3, which includes templates to help customers utilize the features of the QS22.

“The QS22 is a technological leap over the physical limitations of traditional processors that often dampen the ability of organizations to reach their goals,” said Jim Comfort, vice president, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “IBM has delivered on the promise of integrating HPC into the business world in a way that allows developers, clients and IT departments to ramp up quickly and get results without delay.”

The QS22 is coming in early June.