Michael Dolan Dot Com

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Cell BE processors can dramatically change your view – and performance – 50x traditional processor configurations

I wonder what the results would have been had they used a Terra Soft PS3 Cluster? :-)

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=236239

“Collaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed up the processing of 3-D medical images.

Through porting and optimization of Mayo Clinic’s Image Registration Application on the IBM® BladeCenter® QS20 ‘Cell Blade,’ the application produced image results fifty times faster than the application running on a traditional processor configuration.

With the images properly aligned over one another, a radiologist can more easily detect structural changes such as the growth or shrinkage of tumors.

This improvement with the application running on Cell, will achieve two things — allow for Mayo’s doctors and radiologists to achieve in seconds what used to take hours, which in turn will significantly decrease the wait time and anxiety for a patient waiting on news from the doctor.”