blablubb on 25 November 2009
| theprof00 said: Well, the POWER7 is a cell as well. It's possible that it is still programmed the same way, but additionally it can handle traditional code much better than the current cell can. But, yeah. I agree with your post. |
I can find no evidence, that the power 7 is a cell as well, I think you are wrong.
The Power 7 looks to be a many threaded (at least 32 threads) symetric multiprocessor (just i kind of cores) whereas the cell belongs to the asymetric kind.
To be "a cell as well" the Power7 has to be asymetric and must share a common instructionset (spe related).
