____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 17:15 : \____
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Sony develops new Cell-based computer architecture
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | The same components are part of the Playstation 3 game console. However,
>>> | according to Sony the elements that will form part of the new computer
>>> | platform will be a lot more powerful. At the event in San Diego Sony
>>> | intends to demonstrate the performance of the architecture by having the
>>> | system process images with a 4K (4096 × 2160 pixels, according DCI
>>> | specifications) resolution in real time.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/93801/from/rss09
>>>
>>> This whole work on the PS3 could lead to great advances in Linux HPC.
>>>
>>>
>>> Related:
>>>
>>> PS3 Real-time Ray-tracing
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT) using three Sony Playstation3s (PS3)
>>> | to render a model that is 75x more complex then those used in
>>> | today's games.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-33982.aspx
>>
>> I can't wait till the Cell trickles down to us normal users... Imagine a 4
>> core Cell running your desktop/server in the home. Windopes can only
>> dream...
>>
>
> IBM are offering blades for their blade centre with cell processors. I
> think that their experience with Apple has pulled them away from the PC
> market. I think it quite likely that IBM offered Apple the Cell
> processor, but Apple decided that they could get a better deal from
> Intel, and perhaps they could.
It's to do with running Windows primarily (hypervisors). Of course if Windows
ran on just more than 1 architecture (properly, with drivers and everything
else) or had source code available, then Apple PCs would have been far more
powerful and attractive. Windows holds key applications (not killer
applications, mind you, because proprietary formats don't make merits)
hostage.
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