Viper1 on 02 July 2008
ChronotriggerJM, that IBM computer, RoadRunner, is actually a hybrid of two different chips. The CELL and AMD Opterons.
The Opterons are even broken into two categories (computational and operational). The 400 or so operational Opterons (out of 7,000) are the main processors while the ~13,000 CELL chips work like a math co-processor.
You have to understand that the CELL is still a pretty specialized chip. There are many functions that an old Pentium 4 chip can do much faster than a CELL ever dreamed of doing (and obviously vice versa).
The rEVOLution is not being televised
