It's sort of like a backwards TV -- "eventually", you could take a picture and get back a stream of data --provided they can do this fast enough (probably not with the mirror stuff)
Funny, in the article when they talk about Folding@Home on the PS3:
The Stanford researchers say that 10,000 consoles running the program would give a performance equivalent to one petaflop. The team hopes eventually to enlist 100,000 machines.
Odd how they need 16,000 Cell's and 16,000 Opterons to get a theortetical 1.6 Petaflops, maybe the supercomputer is using Cells with only 5 or 6 SPE's enabled?
These bacteria cannot change what isotope the Uranium is in, and thus cannot remove the radioactivity. All they do is create a non-soluble oxide so it doesnt poison groundwater.
I'm pretty sure the reason it was "too expensive" to create a GPU for Microsoft is because Nvidia did not want to invest in R&D for unified shader model graphics (it's sort of implied somewhere in the interview...)
It's not just Slashdot, everyone seems to want a piece of Sony.
A little clarification though, a quick search of IBM's Cell Broadband Engine handbook (http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/ techdocs/9F820A5FFA3ECE8C8725716A0062585F)
for "local memory" says:
The SPEs, in contrast[to the PowerPC core), access main storage with Direct Memory Access (DMA)
commands that move data and instructions between main storage and a private local memory,
called a local store or local storage (LS).
So if the Inquirer was accurate about the 16Mbit/MByte per second speed it would mean each SPE can access 16 Mb worth of instructions per second.
A lot of the emphasis for the hard drive (besides saving+patches) seemed to be on speeding load times for games, you wouldnt need much space to prefetch stuff into a small portion of the hard drive
Actually, people don't buy diamonds for the shiney-ness. Its because theyre . Cubic zirconium is way cheaper and has a higher index of refraction (its shinier). It's not as popular as diamonds because the diamond cartels market they're stuff as "the real deal." That applies to these artificial diamonds too, so not much is going to change.
An instruction set is composed of commands like Add this register to this register.... I dont see how it has anything to do with newer and better hardware--it just runs the instructions faster.
Also, data transfer is handled by the mobo now (DMA-Direct Memory Access or something)
Finally, AMD AND Intel both use x86 (AMD doesnt have power issues yet), and they actually break the instructions into smaller ones. What Cell could do is just translate the x86 instructions into cell instructions which might make it compatible w/ x86 architecture.
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It's sort of like a backwards TV -- "eventually", you could take a picture and get back a stream of data --provided they can do this fast enough (probably not with the mirror stuff)
Funny, in the article when they talk about Folding@Home on the PS3:
The Stanford researchers say that 10,000 consoles running the program would give a performance equivalent to one petaflop. The team hopes eventually to enlist 100,000 machines.
Odd how they need 16,000 Cell's and 16,000 Opterons to get a theortetical 1.6 Petaflops, maybe the supercomputer is using Cells with only 5 or 6 SPE's enabled?
RIAA meeting: I bet that bastard thinks hes getting off easy by dying on us, well we'll show him!
These bacteria cannot change what isotope the Uranium is in, and thus cannot remove the radioactivity. All they do is create a non-soluble oxide so it doesnt poison groundwater.
until my free ad-supported Wonderbread tells me to go pick up some free ad-supported Coca Cola.
I'm pretty sure the reason it was "too expensive" to create a GPU for Microsoft is because Nvidia did not want to invest in R&D for unified shader model graphics (it's sort of implied somewhere in the interview...)
It's not just Slashdot, everyone seems to want a piece of Sony. A little clarification though, a quick search of IBM's Cell Broadband Engine handbook (http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/ techdocs/9F820A5FFA3ECE8C8725716A0062585F)
for "local memory" says:
The SPEs, in contrast[to the PowerPC core), access main storage with Direct Memory Access (DMA)
commands that move data and instructions between main storage and a private local memory,
called a local store or local storage (LS).
So if the Inquirer was accurate about the 16Mbit/MByte per second speed it would mean each SPE can access 16 Mb worth of instructions per second.
whether MS will follow this pattern with the XBox 7200 or whatever they name the next one...
A lot of the emphasis for the hard drive (besides saving+patches) seemed to be on speeding load times for games, you wouldnt need much space to prefetch stuff into a small portion of the hard drive
Actually, people don't buy diamonds for the shiney-ness. Its because theyre . Cubic zirconium is way cheaper and has a higher index of refraction (its shinier). It's not as popular as diamonds because the diamond cartels market they're stuff as "the real deal." That applies to these artificial diamonds too, so not much is going to change.
An instruction set is composed of commands like Add this register to this register.... I dont see how it has anything to do with newer and better hardware--it just runs the instructions faster. Also, data transfer is handled by the mobo now (DMA-Direct Memory Access or something) Finally, AMD AND Intel both use x86 (AMD doesnt have power issues yet), and they actually break the instructions into smaller ones. What Cell could do is just translate the x86 instructions into cell instructions which might make it compatible w/ x86 architecture.