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darkknightkryta on 03 November 2013
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fatslob-:O said:
Pemalite said:
Kyuu said:


I thought by now it should be possible to accelerate and improve Cell to the extent to easily outperform a 1.6 ghz Jaguar in most regards. Because apparently even a 7 year old Cell isn't too far behind the newer Jaguar Architecture. Plus, the fastest supercomputer in the world was Cell powered at one point.

I think Sony might've benefited from the Cell given the fact that it was developed in house with IBM and Toshiba. Not sure how it all econimically works for each compnay but since they've already invested over a billion dollar for the project. Why would they let it all go? where they too hopeful? did they miscaclulate or was the Cell planned as a temporary product from the get-go. I'd like to hear your take on the matter.

I really don't know much about this but wasn't Cell initially supposed to handle graphics alone without a GPU? Does it have an edge in graphics processing over similarly priced/powerful traditional CPUs or is this just gibberish?


The fastest super computer in the world currently isn't the fastest because of the CPU type, but the fact it's powered by nVidia's Tesla.

@Bold

Well actually the most powerful supercomputer is the Tianhe-2.

It ain't exactly what I'd call a GPU. It's more on the lines of an accelerator known as intels xeon phi. :-|

Kyuu was talking about Roadrunner.  Back then it was the most powerful super computer.  Sad thing is, the powerCell8i (That powered Roadrunner) or whatever it was called truly was a beast.  Too bad that revision never made it into the PS3's cell.