| WEWdeadeye said: Wow, RealMafoo, you post links to IBM's website to help back up your claims about the Cell? Nice... Happy, I really feel for you...this is almost like the old convos, about the cell and PS3, between MikeB and I can't remember his name. It has to be awfully frustrating dealing with people like that, who ignore factual reasoning and intelligent arguments, shooting your posts down with IBM PR and information on something different then what is being argued. The whole G5 thing really gave me a laugh, I mean...come on? Are you serious??!?!? |
Sigh, you guys pick an argument, and no matter how much code gets written to disprove your views, you dismiss it as PR trash.
Here are some non-IBM links:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1229445
"Our experiments show that the Cell benefits significantly from dynamic methods that selectively exploit the layers of parallelism in the system, in response to workload fluctuation. Our scheduler out performs the MPI version of RAxML, scheduled by the Linux kernel, by up to a factor of 2.6. We are able to execute RAxMLon one Cell four times faster than on a dual-processor system with Hyperthreaded Xeon processors, and 5--10% faster than on a single-processor system with a dual-core, quad-thread IBM Power5processor."
http://www.citeulike.org/user/Zakalwe/article/1243198
"using a combination of low-level optimized kernel routines, a streaming software architecture, explicit caching, and a virtual software-hyperthreading approach to hide DMA latencies, we achieve for a single cell a pure ray tracing performance of nearly one order of magnitude over that achieved by a commodity CPU"
These people don't care about some stupid PS3 vs 360 argument. They are not using the CELL to prove a point, or win an argument. They are scientists getting real world results out of a very powerfull processor.
I guess you guys want to believe the CELL sucks, so it probably wouldn't matter if someone could do something like crack passwords 100 times faster then ever before, you still wouldn't believe it holds any more power then the 360's CPU. It's like a religion to you people. I am done.
P.S. It been done:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140064-c,gameconsoles/article.html
