shupola
Active Member
vortmax said:Tested at 4 GHz, but that's not it's strong point. Developers calim it can breech the Terraflop boundary. That's a trillion floating point opperations per second or 10000000000000 flops.
It's comprised of 8 32 bit SPE processors linked by a blazing fast bus routed through a 64 bit dual thread processor.
The SPE's are capabile of dynamicly redistributing load and multiple cell chips can be dynamically linked and run distributed processing. So hook your home PC with one up to a TV with one and the PC will start to distribute graphics processing to the TV to maximise effeciency.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1727
is an interesting read.
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/494/kahle.html
is another great article for the slightly more computer literate.
The thing that excites me is that the processor can redistribute load to group like processes together and minimize throughput within the chip and between other chips linked to it. This structure of specialization and clustering has been around for millions of years.....it's called a neuron.
so in other words: PS2 IS GOING TO KICK A$$!!

