ssj12 said:
Profcrab said:
SpartanFX said:
crumas2 said:
The Cell wasn't designed for PS3, so the subject line is misleading. That's like saying a supercomputer was built from components designed for the previous generation of Macs because it used PowerPC processors.
Then again, there has been at least one super computer built from hundreds of rack-mount Macs, so let us know when the same is done with a giant array of PS3s. |
it is done with 8 PS3s in a university ,,here is the PIC: 
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=220 |
I've always said that IBM came out much better on the Cell deal than Sony did. IBM got a great server processor out of it and Sony got a great server processor out of it . . . that can, in a far less effective role, run games. One of these companies makes servers and the other one makes game systems. When you compare relative cost benefit between two types of products, servers and game consoles, it's pretty funny that the PS3 is a much more cost effective server than a game system. As a game system it is just competitive with the 360. As a server it can, seemingly, be very effective. I give this thread a 9.1. |
You do realize that server processors are better then desktop processors right? They can be way more effective for gaming then a normal processor. |
Not true, server applications are very different from most regular applications. Sometimes server and PC tech can overlap but some aspects are more benificial to servers than games. Multithreading is one of them. Gaming apps also don't usually require the bandwidth that server apps do. The Cell is an excellent server processor. I'm still waiting to see how the PS3's very expensive investment into the Cell translates to significantly better graphics than the 360. Right now I see a very small improvement. So, lets just go from the evidence we have. The PS3 Cell is performing about at the level of a more conventional processor (the Tri-core Xenon) for games but seems to do disproportionately better in server applications. So, who got what they wanted? Sony or IBM?
I give that post a 9.0.
