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More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details

Posted by timothy on from the or-at-least-hints-of-them dept.

gwernol writes: "Redherring has a good article on Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 3: not too many technical details but good background to the Xbox/PlayStation wars. Sony are touting the use of massively parallel 'cell computing' to get a 1,000 times performance increase over the PS2. This plan, also known as grid computing is also discussed here."

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  1. Marketing PHB? by peterdaly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This sounds to me like a Marketing droid who knows jack about this stuff saying it will be a fast processor on a platform that is built for network games and applications.

    Based on the other comments, that may be the closest thing to the truth from that article.

    -Pete

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