Comments on: IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal
Big Blue will build a machine at Los Alamos lab that combines thousands of AMD Opteron and Cell chips.
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Let's stick with a modern OS like Linux.
- Playstation 3 Chip...
- by zaznet September 7, 2006 4:11 AM PDT
- The Cell processor was not designed for the PS3. The processor was designed to be a system on a chip and incorporates multiple cores and processing streams (kind of like hyper threading). Sony decided it would use the design in the PS3 since the ability to perform many simultaneous calculations would be of benefit for a gaming platform.
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(4 Comments)It is a next generation processor combining many technologies and has been in development for quite a while. Toshiba would not have participated in this project had it been to provide the PS3 with a processor. It was to provide a chip that could perform many multi-media and high level functions in one package.
The Cell was also designed to be highly scalable in a cluster or multi-processor design.