aragod said:
nightsurge said:
Why don't they save themselves the money and just build servers with multiple Cell BE's rather than wasting it on buying actual PS3's then losing performance by clustering?
@Staude: Maybe you should have read closer. They ARE discontinuing Cell development. They ARE NOT re-using the Cell in future projects, they are re-using ASPECTS of the Cell. Things they learned from using the Cell architecture will carry over but the new products will NOT be Cell variants or Cell successors nor will they have Cells in them.
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Guess you don't know much about building supercomputers and cluster networks... Cluster will allways come cheaper than building one supercomputer (or even several that would be required for that task). That is the single reason why they do that.
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Obviously clusters are "cheaper" but this is the US Military (Air Force to be exact). They should be more worried about performance which would be much higher had they just purchased the Cell processors and built their own supercomputer structure.
