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The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-a-station-play dept.

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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  1. Translated by sl4shd0rk · · Score: -1, Troll

    "evaluated the processor's performance in running several scientific application kernels"

    Translation: We compiled 2.4 and 2.6 on it and ran convert on a bunch of TIFF images for a couple days.

    "then compared this performance against other processor architectures."

    Translation: xp woulnd't activate.

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