OT: Cell Proc In More Than Just The PS3

jrazz wrote on 10/3/2007, 8:06 AM
Cell chip is breaking out of the PS3

Now, if we can just get a turnkey Vegas system powered by 4 of those babies....

Really though, how realistic would something like that be and how much more beneficial would a cell chip be over a quad core proc?
Currently it doesn't even look like pc's are on the list, but who knows.

j razz

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/3/2007, 8:18 AM
reality? Not much, if any. Windows software can't even do 64-bit & duel core for the most part. Something that was tailor made could though, like when SGI's had multi-CPU's & their own custom OS & software.

Take a look at the games that come out for the PC, 360 & PS3. The PC is the most powerful & scalable (if you want to spend the $$). Sony was making everyone think we should have 100% reality on the PS3 but nobody's achieved it yet.
apit34356 wrote on 10/3/2007, 2:36 PM
Cell latest news;
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BM's 'Cell University Challenge' Winners Uncover Breakthrough Applications for Brain Monitoring, Data Mapping, Medical Imaging and Object Detection

Thousands of Students Across the Globe Use Gaming Technology to Challenge Conventional Design


AUSTIN, TX - 24 Sep 2007: Today at the 2007 Power Architecture Developer Conference (PADC), IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the winners of its first annual Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) Processor University Challenge. From the thousands of innovative entries, winning designs featured never-before-seen uses of the Cell/B.E. technology, including large-scale modeling of the human brain; a system for mapping massive amounts of real-time data; a path to deliver complex, 3-D medical images to a desktop computer; and a new way to detect extremely fast-moving objects.
Nearly 80,000 students from 25 countries competed in the Challenge, which consisted of online trivia about Cell/B.E. -- originally designed by IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba Corp., for use in consumer devices such as Sony Computer Entertainment's PLAYSTATION©3 -- followed by an opportunity to invent their own applications using this powerful processor. Students' designs included everything from applications-oriented solutions (e.g., visualization, medical imaging, seismic computing, etc.) to High Performance Computing (HPC) to industry-wide programmability tools.

"This contest provided a growth opportunity for students to gain real-life, multi-disciplinary skills to apply to their futures as they move from the classroom to the workforce," said Nick Donofrio, IBM executive vice president, Innovation and Technology. "This challenge also proved the true power, potential and promise of student innovations."
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Plus Toshiba is going to use a reduced Cell spi units to produce a special high-end graphics engine will work in Computers to TVs to advance media phones(this one should be interesting).