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More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details
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."
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Well, it *MIGHT* be powerful to run Longhorn(tm) as fast as Windows3.1(tm) ran on a 386 :-)
it would allow consoles to properly render bouncing breasts with a real time physics engine in full AntiAliased, Anistropic filtered, with 8 light sources, and 50,000 polygons and textures per breast glory.
Instead of using a mouse or game controller, players might wave their hands in front of a Web cam, showing what they want to do through gestures.
Sony...where half the fun of a game is watching someone else try to play it.
-Pete
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i;m not sure about you, but i don't think its skynet that will be running the world over with machines....
FYI, it's a "self-healing" article. Whenever the writer made a typo, the masssively parallel content management system dynamically replaced the mistyped word with a buzzword, making for one superintegrated synergistic media experience with meshed redundancy capabilities.
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* Broadband, 8 Idle PS3's
* "Fantasy Freak" status in one or more of the following areas: - LOTR - D&D - Materia Magica or similar MUD
* No Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Wife (Recomend: Squaresoft FFXXI Divorce Kit). Note: Internet Boyfriend/girlfriends are OK
* Star Wars fanatic status (jar jar sucks) - Star Wars Stratego game owners +10 HP
* Active dislike for star trek fans
* Fanatic status for atleast two Anime series, one of which must involve robotic suits.
**** Requirements waved for The Dragon Master
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Seriously, either the author of the article doesn't know what he's talking about or Sony's been smoking something other than Xbox sales. I saw Dean Takahashi (the author) give a talk to promote his new Xbox book at the San Jose Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago. I was sitting in the cafe area, occasionally looking over to get an idea of whether the audience seemed interested in what he was saying... but they seemed so dead I didn't bother walking over.
At the end, he distributed free X-box games to random audience members, and I distinctly remember the look on each person's face as they accepted their prize: "what the fsck am I gonna do with this?"
Well let me explain, it's quiete simple... to date console users have been stuck with an insufficent ergo-zoom power feeling when it comes to paralell perpindicular cross-game match ups. Sony has decided to implement a way of increasing the speed of the game sooo dramatically that fun will go shooting through the roof. you'll be able to simultaneosly have fun across a network of PS3 systems. the feeling of the little joystick in your hand will leave you tingling. never before, ever ever in the universe.. has anyone ever come close to buoying so much connectivity in such a fun packed system. this whole situation will of course overwhelm even the most elitist of hackers.. therefore eliminating any need for further security. all this system-interaction will render hacker's efforts futile. they won't even know where to begin. computer viruses on the other hand, are such fragile creatures, that the quick flowing currents of the super bandwidth will quickly drown them out before they can spread. and lost connections! Don't worry! if you lose your connection you won't even realize it.
-judging another only defines yourself
That's nothing compared to the 42 billion/second i drew in ascii art on the top line of this post.