In article <mKYcj.26048$k27.24114@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No whining about how "you can't access the SPE's to do any meaningful
> work". He just does it.
This is the kind of problem the SPEs are good at--a computational task
that fits within the range of computation they are good at, that can be
split up into independent work units, that doesn't need too much data
exchange, and doesn't have to interact too much with your regular Linux
programs.
PS3 as desktop killer is ridiculous and will not happen. PS3 as a
cluster node in a supercomputer is a good and sensible idea (at least
until someone makes a Cell-based motherboard available for building into
custom supercomputer nodes--then you wouldn't have to waste money on
Blu-Ray drives and expensive GPUs on your cluster nodes).
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--Tim Smith
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