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- Mar 8, 2002
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One thing that I find interesting is that the xbox proc appears to be descended from the Blue Gene processor core
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkresearch.nsf/pages/bluegene499.html
http://sc-2002.org/paperpdfs/pap.pap207.pdf
Blue Gene is an IBM supercomputer originally designed to calculate *shock* protien folding. The core were based off of a power pc 400mhz core. It utilized dual core tech and beefed up the mhz to 700. From the spec I read on the Xbox, it sounds like a new gen of the same.
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkresearch.nsf/pages/bluegene499.html
http://sc-2002.org/paperpdfs/pap.pap207.pdf
Blue Gene is an IBM supercomputer originally designed to calculate *shock* protien folding. The core were based off of a power pc 400mhz core. It utilized dual core tech and beefed up the mhz to 700. From the spec I read on the Xbox, it sounds like a new gen of the same.