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Cell Architecture Explained

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the closer-looks dept.

IdiotOnMyLeft writes "OSNews features an article written by Nicholas Blachford about the new processor developed by IBM and Sony for their Playstation 3 console. The article goes deep inside the Cell architecture and describes why it is a revolutionary step forwards in technology and until now, the most serious threat to x86. '5 dual core Opterons directly connected via HyperTransport should be able to achieve a similar level of performance in stream processing - as a single Cell. The PlayStation 3 is expected to have have 4 Cells.'"

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  1. Nicholas Blachford is an idiot. Please don't read. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nicholas Blachford is an idiot. Do not read any of his articles. Just to give you the best of Nicholas, read his antigravity article and visit his web site:

    http://www.blachford.info/quantum/gravity.html

    Also, look at the nose pictures of him ;)

    http://www.blachford.info/other/me.html

    Seriously, the guy has burned most of his sane braincells.

    For serious laugh, read his article series 'building the next generation' from osnews. I really got good laughs from that 4 part series.

    Also, it didn't take long to spot a totally idiotic statement from todays slashdotted article:

    > Parallel programming is usually complex but in this case the OS will look at the
    > resources it has and distribute tasks accordingly, this process does not
    > involve re-programming.

    Here Nicholas misses the core problem of parallel programming. The program algorithms _always_ have to made parallel. The OS can't do it.