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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. Who cares? by gorre · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only console company of any interest is Nintendo as they concentrate on churning out quality games like Mario, Zelda and the like. Sony and Microsoft are trying to turn their consoles into PCs which is pointless because since they are cheaper they are inevitably not as good (also the lack of decent upgrades makes them out of date in a year). So I'll be sticking to my GameCube and PC thank you very much.

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  2. Bewolf Cluster! by peterdaly · · Score: 0, Troll

    The name for this technology is "grid" (formerly called "cell") and appears to be targeted squarely at the possibilities of parallel and distributed computing over the internet.

    Imagine a bewolf cluster of those! Oh wait...

    Someone had to say it!

    -Pete

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