games use just 10% of ps3's power + CELL benchmarks

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washimul said:PARALELLIZATION is non existent..............however i have heard of terms like PARALLEL PROCESSING which refers to concurrent processing as you mentioned.

Here you go: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parallelization The term is commonly used when attempting to divide an algorithm into smaller subtasks, typically for threading or dividing into separate processes.

RAPIDMIND and ISUPPLY both confirmed ps3 to be a supercomputer as well.

It's worth noting that companies involved in selling processors and related products, when pushing their products, often compare them to supercomputers. They may indeed compare to older supercomputers, but the term supercomputer must be redefined fairly often. As the typical computer get faster, so too do supercomputers. Remember that the G4 processor was also a "supercomputer" according to Apple, since it had SIMD instructions in the form of Altivec. That's how marketing works. The Cell truly has an interesting processor architecture, and when optimized properly it will definitely be fast for operations which can be parallelized. The compiler should also provide a nice performance boost, as the processor's utilization should go up. It's not a modern supercomputer, but yes, it's fast when given appropriate input.