Please get some knowledge of CPU arcitecture and performance before creating threads such as this. I can't believe that you consider the cell's core running multi-threaded tasks at that level as proof that it isn't a "supercomputer". If the 7SPE's were active it would have been a different story. The Xenon has 3 cores and was built for simultaneous multi-threading (hyper-threading). The cell would have each of its SPE's performing its functions. If it wasn't a super computer I can guarantee it wouldn't be so highly regarded in the Folding@Home project. Those benchmarks are a load of rubbish. It wasn't a fair testing environment to get the best out of each CPU, there were too many variables that weren't taken into account and you should have known this.
The Cell is capable of producing 204 GFLOPS floating point calculations (vs the Xenon's peak performance of 115 GFLOPS). There's your super-computing power by definition right there. Enough said.
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