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The new RoadRunner supercomputer uses the same processor used in the Playstation 3 by Sony: Cell Broadband Engine processors.

VaST Systems Technology announced that Michael Paczan has been named the company's new Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Paczan comes to VaST from IBM where he was most recently CTO for Power.org. As VaST's CTO, Paczan will work closely with technologists in industry and academia to align VaST technology and research to meet challenges escalating systems design complexity.

As the Power.org CTO since 2005, Paczan chaired the Power.org Technical Committee responsible for managing the organization's collaborative technical initiatives. He managed IBM's cross-organizational technical initiatives contributing to Power.org spanning System on Chip, bus architecture, platform architecture, reference designs, and software initiatives. Michael worked closely with member companies on collaborative innovation where he was first introduced to the concepts of electronic virtualization and VaST technology.

Power.org was prominently mentioned in an article about an IBM initiative to create reusable software modules for consumer-device ASICs.

Freescale, Power.org and DSDP lead Wind River are heading up the Test Communications Framework (TFC) project, an incubating component of the Target Management project that will allow value-adding servers to plug in between tools and targets, such as a debugging engine that translates high-level language from software to a low-level hardware language and vice-versa, for example.