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Title: Related to Cell tech
Post by: FatalXception on November 16, 2003, 08:49:03 PM
ORIGINAL CNN ARTICLE (http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/14/technology/ibm_cpu.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes)

Summary:

A prototype of a cell supercomputer made the top 100 supercomputer list in the world... using the same tech for the PS3.  It\'s about the size of a TV - 2 trillion calculations per second. :D
Title: Related to Cell tech
Post by: ##RaCeR## on November 16, 2003, 09:07:53 PM
Size of a tv???

How the hell is that going to work?
Title: Related to Cell tech
Post by: FatalXception on November 16, 2003, 09:10:18 PM
READ the article.. or at the LEAST my summary. :p

This is a supercomputer, not the PS3 prototype.  It\'s simply interesting cause it uses cell tech... and a TV sized supercomputer is one of the top 100 in the world.  It\'s impressive.
Title: Related to Cell tech
Post by: Knotter8 on November 17, 2003, 10:38:16 AM
See how many PS2\'s fit in 1 tv, then devide those 2 trillion calculations p/sec by that number = PS3 performance :laughing:
Title: Related to Cell tech
Post by: FatalXception on November 17, 2003, 07:46:09 PM
Depends on the size of TV, of course, but I came up roughly with 10-20 billion calcs per sec.  Of course, that\'s incredibly unrealistic, since the whole system is setup as a supercomputer, but the numbers still bode well for the PS3.