The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor

prostoalex writes "High Performance Computing Newswire is running an article on a paper by computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They have evaluated the processor's performance in running several scientific application kernels, then compared this performance against other processor architectures. The full paper is available from Computer Science department at Berkeley."

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Re:Xbox 2 is a "commodity"

[Anonymous Coward]

I know you console players just grew your pubes, and this might be hard for you to understand, but Cell will be available in workstations and clusters. XBox's CPU is a one-off for a game console.