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IBM Full-System Simulator Team Speaks Out

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the from-the-horses-mouth dept.

Shell writes "The IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) processor, known inside IBM as codeword Mambo, is a key component of the newly posted offerings on alphaWorks. Meet some of the members of the team that pulled it together, and hear about the simulator in their own words."

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  1. PS3? by raingrove · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this mean we can emulate PS3? lol

    1. Re:PS3? by Kuciwalker · · Score: 0, Funny

      Yes, but you only get decent fps on a 6.8GHz 1TB RAM 2TB HD laptop.

  2. Re:Mambo - LOL by FooAtWFU · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's called a 'codename'. The real name is apparently 'IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine processor'.

    Yes, all of IBM's products are named like that. I mean, every now and again they try to go for something neat and spiffy sounding like "WebSphere", but then they have to munge it all up with "Websphere Application Server" (WAS) and "Websphere Client Technologies Mobile Edition" (WCTME) and so on and so forth. This is normal for IBM, and this is why they really need code-names.
    A related story out of IBM from a distinguished engineer I once made the acquaintance of... He's walking along one day and runs into one of his boss's boss's bosses or something like that. So he says, "I know how we can win the war on drugs." He explains: "We make all drugs legal... and assign exclusive marketing rights to the OS/2 marketing team." Boss-dude tells him he's an asshole; he shrugs: "But you got my point."

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  3. Re:Amazing Cell Demo by DigiShaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn!! Was that really real-time? I'm almost wanting to call it's bluff and say it was all choreographed. With the right AI program optimized for multi-threading, we could have HAL if enough CELL chips thrown at it. It may be crude, but it's worth a shot! Imagine the real-world application.

    "HAL: how much unread e-mail do I have?"

    "HAL: please set my alarm for 7:30am"

    "HAL: using google maps, please tell me how many miles and ETA it will be going from X to Y"

    and my favorite...

    "HAL: based on historical trends in the stock market, what do you calculate as being the best investment for quick returns"

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