Apparently ps3 has 9 cores and can run Linux. As regular J forums members readers will know, I don't know much about this stuff (so I have probably got the wrong end of the stick!), but I heard/read somewhere that the Cell processor has some kind of extremely high bandwidth for transferring data around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1G6HP6bH1w&feature=player_embedded On 17 February 2010 14:05, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Years ago on my 8088 PC with the floating point chip running STSC/APL+ I > had > an array of several thousand numbers which I needed to convert to character > (money). Using the tools in APL this took close to a half-minute. So I > wrote > an assembly program where I overlapped the 8087 instruction to convert > numeric to character and while it was doing that, the code in the 8088 > inserted the decimal, added a dollar sign to the previous conversion and > saved in an array for later display. Using that, the conversion was almost > instantaneous. I never timed it, but it was orders of magnitude faster. > > Loved the ability to call small assembly programs from that APL. It was > very > fast and easy to use. And that was my first experience of parallel > processing on a PC. > > 2010/2/17 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > > > 2010/2/17 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>: > > > But I'm still transferring and loading a lot of data on the sub > processes > > and this is when I got this idea of converting strings to numbers. > > > > It was/is a common practice in APL to convert strings to numbers and > > work with the numbers (integers) until you needed to present the > > results in human readable form. > > > > There are huge databases built every night at many companies building > > such inverted databases to work on with APL systems. > > > > The APL inverted processes built this way are very fast and worth the > > slow processes doing the inversion. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
