Sony PS3 Cluster (IBM Cell BE) ⇔ 8+1 nodes, ppc64 FC5 w/ CellSDK Official Annoucement of PS3 Cluster NPR story on PS3 clusters from "All things considered", Feb 21, 2009 (local copy) Hardware 8+1 nodes IBM CellBE one 2-way SMT PowerPC core (PPE), 3.2GHz, 32kB L1-I cache, 32kB L1-D cache, 512kB locking L2 cache, 256MB XDR DRAM six SPEs (seventh is used by Sony virtualization software, eigth is hard