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January 19th, 2006

A paragraph about Cell

Posted by Paul Murphy @ 3:51 am

Categories: Enterprise Policy, General, Hardware

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A Forbes article last week by Daniel Lyons under the title Holy Chip! included this paragraph about an IBM cell processor demo:

An IBM demo shows the contrast. A terrain rendering program lets you fly over Mount Rainier at 1,300mph. Cell crunches through millions of lines of topographical and photographic data per second to paint topographically accurate, photo-quality pictures at a movie-quality 30 frames per second. On a similar program a Pentium takes more than two minutes to sketch a single frame.

The article is worth reading, that paragraph above is worth reading again. Think about what this thing is going to do when applied in engineering or architectural design, bio-research, and chemical modelling.

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Fond Memories...

Yes, the Amiga was impressive, and superior in every way to a comparable PC. Must be why there are so many more of them in use today than x86 boxes....

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Posted by: brble Posted on: 01/24/06 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
That's gotta scare the pants off NVidia and ATI  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
More likely to scare the pants off of Microsoft. They rushed their product  DonnieBoy | 01/19/06
but what about cost ?  JJ_z | 01/19/06
I don't think MS is worried at all.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
High frame rates are important  eb276 | 01/19/06
M$ isn't scared  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
what was it, we were discussing yesterday?  Arnout Groen | 01/19/06
No where did anyone say this was a bench test.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
More Amiga references  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
Not really, but that's ok.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Can't learn from history?  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
In the losest of possible terms, sort of.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Hardware-wise I would agree  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
Yes, coders will need to be retrained.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Can I imagine?  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
Which x86 would you compare to the processor used by your Amiga?  balsover | 01/19/06
Amiga education  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
apples and oranges  murph_zZDNet Moderator | 01/19/06
Z80 vs 8088  mosborne | 01/19/06
not my point..  Arnout Groen | 01/19/06
Was there a point to your rambling?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Of course it was written specifically for the cell processor  balsover | 01/19/06
It's just a demo  murph_zZDNet Moderator | 01/19/06
Fond Amiga memories  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
Amiga memories  balsover | 01/19/06
A matter of degree - not kind  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
Fond Memories...  brble | 01/24/06
If only MS and IBM would kiss and make up.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
M$ and Cell  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
You don't get it...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
I do get it - I think . . .  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
Sort of and no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Thanks  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
I don't think that will happen  murph_zZDNet Moderator | 01/19/06
InHell is . . .  Roger Ramjet | 01/20/06
Intel is as trapped by legacy as MS is.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/20/06
like itanic?  murph_zZDNet Moderator | 01/20/06
like the i960?  Roger Ramjet | 01/20/06
A question about Cell  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
More flexible that that!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Another question  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
I hear ya!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
BIOS could be an issue  Roger Ramjet | 01/19/06
Not certain a BIOS would even be...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Not how it's being used  quietLee | 01/19/06
No, at least, not at the Linux level  murph_zZDNet Moderator | 01/19/06
Answer my own question  Roger Ramjet | 01/20/06
stop the pollution.  BrutalTruth | 01/19/06
Sorry George  murph_zZDNet Moderator | 01/19/06
why the hide and seek  BrutalTruth | 01/20/06

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