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NSBE Tech Corner | PlayStation 3: Supercomputer?

Source: www.nsbe.org
Topic: Playstation 3


Short Desciption:
400000 PlayStation 2 Network Adaptors) Sony is in the news again with regard to the next. iteration of its PlayStation console the PlayStation 3. ...

 

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NSBE Tech Corner | PlayStation 3: Supercomputer? Page 1NSBE Tech Corner | PlayStation 3: Supercomputer? Sony's next iteration of the venerable PlayStation may be "Cellbound."(Adapted from GameSpy.com)Having concluded a recordbreaking sales season during November and December 2002 on itsPlayStation 2 video game system (selling over four million PS2 hardware units and more than 400000 PlayStation 2 Network Adaptors) Sony is in the news again with regard to the nextiteration of its PlayStation console the PlayStation 3.Destined by all indicators for a 2005 release stories surround the PS3 pointing toward the incorporation of a complex microprocessor a supercomputeronachip bearing the moniker"Cell." Being championed by the hardware triumvirate of IBM Sony and Toshiba these companies have pledged $400 million to the project.Cell scheduled to hit the market in late 2004 or early 2005 differs notably from currentprocessors. This finely crafted chunk of silicon will contain multiple chips within a single unit and will be able to perform in excess of one trillion mathematical calculations a second. Put intoperspective that makes it approximately 100 times more powerful than a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 CPU!At present the processor's design is still being held tightly under wraps but sources indicate thatin addition to its ability to deliver one trillion calculations per second or more of floatingpointcalculations Cell will likely employ somewhere between four and 16 processor cores or cells perchip (hence the technology's label). Accordingly while a game console might utilize a chip with16 cores (some cores performing computational functions others controlling audio and graphics)a less complicated "appliance" like a settop box would require fewer. At least that's a prcisoffered by Peter Glaskowsky editor in chief of the influential industry newsletter "MicroprocessorReport."PROGRESS Cell computing will also facilitate a distributed style of ...

 

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