AUSTIN, TEXAS - 24 Sept 2007: At the 2007 Power Architecture Developer Conference (PADC) today, IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced the winners of its first annual Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) Processor University Challenge.

From the thousands of innovative entries, winning designs featured never-before-seen uses of the Cell/ B.E. technology, including large-scale modeling of the human brain; a system for mapping massive amounts of real-time data; a path to deliver complex, 3-D medical images to a desktop computer; and a new way to detect extremely fast moving objects.

First Place - Cluster of Sony PlayStation3’s used for large-scale modeling of the human brain, Neukom Institute at Dartmouth and UC Irvine.

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