May 27, 2005
All I Want For Christmas
Is one of these puppies. 8 64-bit MIPS cores, 32-way multithreaded (4 per core), two 64-bit DDR2-800 memory controllers and a 32-bit QDR SRAM controller, four gigabit ethernet ports and two ten-gigabit ethernet ports, HyperTransport and PCI-X.
Even better, rip out the PCI-X and replace it with twenty channels of PCI-E, which would be a huge improvement. Drop Linux or BSD on it and it will power a thousand websites without even breathing hard.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:21 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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Are you excited about Cell?
There seems to be near-religious fervor among some people.
There seems to be near-religious fervor among some people.
Posted by: TallDave at May 28, 2005 04:54 AM (9XE6n)
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If you just placed a Paypal (or Amazon Honor System) button on your site, I bet that we, your Munuvian minions, could pitch in and help make sure you had enough to get one by Christmas...
Posted by: JohnL at May 28, 2005 07:25 AM (Hs4rn)
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The Cell looks great - for playing games. Hmm. And rendering video, I guess. It's really designed for that and nothing else. Its general-purpose computing power is no better than my current PC(s), and it's not so hot for double-precision floating point, so it's only good for scientific tasks rather than astonishing.
Now, what would really kick ass is an IBM Power5 (the next generation chip beyond Apple's G5) hooked up to a Cell. Software compatible, of course, since they're both PowerPCs. Dual-core dual-threaded eight-way superscalar processors for everyday work, and the Cell's eight SPE's for games. Zoom zoom!
JohnL - thanks.
But I don't think we're going to see this chip in a system I could actually use. It's really designed for high-speed network routers.
Now, what would really kick ass is an IBM Power5 (the next generation chip beyond Apple's G5) hooked up to a Cell. Software compatible, of course, since they're both PowerPCs. Dual-core dual-threaded eight-way superscalar processors for everyday work, and the Cell's eight SPE's for games. Zoom zoom!
JohnL - thanks.
But I don't think we're going to see this chip in a system I could actually use. It's really designed for high-speed network routers.Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 28, 2005 09:39 AM (+S1Ft)
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