Only very very tangentially related to xbox2/PS3, but this is a REALLY FAST computer:
www.mc.com/products/powerstream_7000
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www.mc.com/products/powerstream_7000
The PowerStream® 7000 system from Mercury Computer Systems delivers extreme processing density with one TeraFLOPS or more of total processing power within an air-cooled, deployable chassis. Optimized for the deployment of high-end image and digital signal processing applications in the harsh, confined environments of airborne, oceangoing, or land-mobile platforms, the PowerStream 7000 system provides an exceptionally powerful solution based on open hardware and software standards.
Based on PowerPC® 7447 microprocessors with AltiVec™ technology and the RapidIO® communications fabric, the PowerStream 7000 system offers performance density exceeding 150 GFLOPS per cubic foot. Fitting more processing power into tight spaces enables full signal and image processing closer to the sensor in mobile platforms.
The RapidIO switch fabric connects more than 120 processor and I/O nodes in a single system, with up to 75 GB/s of aggregate bandwidth and 60 GB/s of bisection bandwidth. This bisection bandwidth is a measure of the worst case communication bottleneck in the system. Combined with up to 60 GB of memory in the system, this high bandwidth enables the next generation of adaptive signal processing algorithms on large images and data sets.
Compact, rugged, and powerful, the Mercury PowerStream 7000 system satisfies the needs of the most demanding real-time radar and signals intelligence applications. Its unique, highly scalable architecture provides flexibility for custom configurations of processors, memory, and I/O to suit any deployment mission.
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