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Jun 10, 2008, 02:52 AM
 
Military Supercomputer Surpasses Petaflop Milestone - NYTimes.com

1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. I have a hard time being able to fathom that number.

Hopefully, scientists will be able to figure out some interesting things before turning it over to the military.
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Jun 10, 2008, 10:48 AM
 
If Apple wasn't in dire need of marketshare penetration, a switch to CELL would have been the next logical move.
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Jun 10, 2008, 12:23 PM
 
Originally Posted by olePigeon View Post
If Apple wasn't in dire need of marketshare penetration, a switch to CELL would have been the next logical move.
CELL as a genral perpose processor is not a good idea. A CELL coprocessor (for encoding/decoding/transcoding video) in an Intel Mac would be very cool. I could maybe see this happening in Snow Leopard [read, OpenCL].
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Jun 10, 2008, 12:29 PM
 
Originally Posted by olePigeon View Post
If Apple wasn't in dire need of marketshare penetration, a switch to CELL would have been the next logical move.
No; Cell makes a terrible desktop processor.

I wonder if OpenCL will work with the PCIe Cell cards.
     
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Jun 10, 2008, 12:33 PM
 
Isn't Cell the processor under the hood of the PS3?
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yes.

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Originally Posted by Rumor View Post
Isn't Cell the processor under the hood of the PS3?
CELL is the Jeebus of processors. That would make a great sig...
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do you mean Jesus?
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Jun 10, 2008, 03:53 PM
 
Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO View Post
CELL as a genral perpose processor is not a good idea. A CELL coprocessor (for encoding/decoding/transcoding video) in an Intel Mac would be very cool.
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No; Cell makes a terrible desktop processor.
Cats clarified what I meant. You'd have the G5 with several CELL coprocessors.

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Isn't Cell the processor under the hood of the PS3?
The CELL is, but Roadrunner is Athlons with CELL 2 coprocessors. The CELL 2 is leaps and bounds better than the CELL.
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Jun 10, 2008, 06:33 PM
 
Originally Posted by olePigeon View Post
If Apple wasn't in dire need of marketshare penetration, a switch to CELL would have been the next logical move.
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Cats clarified what I meant. You'd have the G5 with several CELL coprocessors.
So what was all that distraction about marketshare and a "switch"?
     
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Jun 10, 2008, 09:07 PM
 
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do you mean Jesus?
If you would like him to piss a christian off by taking the lord's name in vain.

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Jun 11, 2008, 09:28 PM
 
Originally Posted by olePigeon View Post
Cats clarified what I meant. You'd have the G5 with several CELL coprocessors.



The CELL is, but Roadrunner is Opterons with CELL 2 coprocessors. The CELL 2 is leaps and bounds better than the CELL.
Fixed. Can I get a link to the CELL 2 spec page, or some sort of press release?
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Originally Posted by Peter View Post
do you mean Jesus?
Yes, Peter, I do mean Jesus.
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Originally Posted by scaught View Post
If you would like him to piss a christian off by taking the lord's name in vain.

(see ya on page 5)
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Jun 12, 2008, 04:51 AM
 
Originally Posted by olePigeon View Post
The CELL is, but Roadrunner is Athlons with CELL 2 coprocessors. The CELL 2 is leaps and bounds better than the CELL.
I'm guessing from the name that it's 2x better.

When can I get my hands on a PowerBook C2?

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Jun 12, 2008, 12:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by Stogieman View Post
I'm guessing from the name that it's 2x better.

When can I get my hands on a PowerBook C2?
I don't think the CELL 2 exists, IBM's website doesn't mention anything about CELL 2.
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Jun 12, 2008, 12:11 PM
 
Originally Posted by Peter View Post
do you mean Jesus?
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If you would like him to piss a christian off by taking the lord's name in vain.

(see ya on page 5)
Oh and jeebus is any less insulting?
     
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Jun 12, 2008, 02:52 PM
 
This thread has sure taken a turn for the worst.
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Oh and jeebus is any less insulting?
Good, good. Stoke the fires, son.
     
   
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