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The PS3 is NOT made to be a computer. Important things like power supplies are not up to datacenter specs. Six hundred bucks is a bit pricey (you're paying for the Blu-ray) for a Cell - you could get 2 Xbox 360s for that price (2 x 3core Xenon).

Other chips such as MIPS 24-core and Niagra 2 (now with floating point on ALL cores!) could do the trick for super computing. But neither of these is available in a low-cost package (like and Xbox or PS3).

I'm more afraid of Iran buying a truckload of PS3s and then running nuclear simulations. Wasn't the PS/2 chip used in nuclear warheads? Maybe that was just a movie . . .
Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 11/29/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Not yet  Roger Ramjet | 11/29/06
Technology leaks  jplatt39 | 11/29/06
Well  jtmodel | 11/29/06
Computer Prices...  Information_z | 11/30/06
Since you asked, think about Slater Mill in Pawtucket Rhode Island  jplatt39 | 12/05/06
The new NVIDIA card totally crushes Cells...  jinko | 11/29/06
Only dweebs play games on their computer.  nomorems | 11/29/06
You're an idiot.  A_Pickle | 11/30/06
Market Value  wjkahlssmd@... | 11/29/06
Just a language breakthrough...  jtmodel | 11/29/06
Agreed  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/06
like true perfection  shryko | 11/29/06
Still missing  jtmodel | 11/29/06
Only a matter of time  D. T. Schmitz | 11/29/06
Thanks!  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/06
Cell Skeptic  jtmodel | 11/29/06
Ah, but it's a differnt story for the OEM  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/29/06
Wouldn't work  jtmodel | 11/29/06
I think you really need to read  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/29/06
Says...  jtmodel | 11/29/06
Advice from the villiage idiot  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/29/06
Goat track to the airport  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/29/06
Sorry No-axe, cell isn't a multi-core CPU  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/29/06
Okay,  jtmodel | 11/29/06
SPE (not PPE) is in-order or two in parallel WITH FPU  stevey_d | 11/30/06
Yes and no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/30/06
Exactly  stevey_d | 11/30/06
Amiga on a chip  Roger Ramjet | 11/30/06
Niagara has less FP than Cell!  stevesliva | 11/30/06
Niagra 2 corrects this  Roger Ramjet | 11/30/06
Each SPE has FPU  stevey_d | 11/30/06
Niagara 2: 1 FPU per core (nt)  aforencich | 11/30/06
Cell is stillborn...  jinko | 11/29/06
What is with  jtmodel | 11/29/06
you have no clue what you're talking about  stevey_d | 11/30/06
As long as we are speculating...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/29/06
Microsoft has become as big, fat and slow as IBM.  B.O.F.H. | 11/29/06
I love it when people say this.  A_Pickle | 11/30/06
Pay no attention to the tail coat rider  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/30/06
What's next?  ejhonda | 11/29/06
Faith  andrnils | 11/30/06
Skilled Programmers?  stevey_d | 11/30/06
What's hard  jtmodel | 11/30/06
What if Cell was made for embarrassingly parallel tasks?  stevey_d | 12/05/06
500 Tflop error or typo?  ahaveland | 03/24/07

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