International Business Machine today announced a new addition in its high performance computing (HPC) line up for use in high-end industries such as financial market, digital media creation and medical imaging. The IBM BladeCenter QS22 is an "economical supercomputing technology" inspired by advanced scientific research facilities. The heart of the QS22 is a new processor compliant with the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) Architecture, originally developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba to provide the computing power for cutting-edge gaming applications. And for the most challenging arithmetic operations, this new processor, the IBM PowerXCell 8i, offers five-times the speed of the original Cell/B.E. processor.

The BladeCenter QS22 is now available with a starting price of $9,995.

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