Part of the BladeCenter family of products, the QS21 is a high performance blade that extends and deepens the IBM Power Architecture solution portfolio by providing a new level of parallelism and performance to targeted workloads. The Cell/B.E. multi-core processor architecture helps the QS21 accelerate key algorithms such as 3D rendering, compression, and encryption and enables companies to create and run highly visual, immersive, real-time applications - this performance offers significant potential benefit to companies in aerospace and defense, health care, life sciences, chemical and petroleum, financial markets, digital media, electronics, government, education and other industries.