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Blue Gene Continued

When computers send and receive data at the rate necessary for todays high-performance networking, it's common for a single processor to become heavily loaded with communications interrupts that take away too many cycles from primary computing tasks. To solve this problem, IBM has designed a series of computers called the Blue Gene Series. The IBM Blue Gene system will utilize cells. Each cell will contain a primary processor, a network co-processor, and a shared on-chip memory. The design is slated to fit 32 such processors on a single microchip.

 

Here is a diagram of how cell processors will pool resources to retrieve and process various tasks
using cells.