My understanding of the PlayStation is that it's a Cell architecture,
with one main CPU and six auxilary processing units with limited
capability. Of course you don't need much for something to do MC
playouts, so it seems a very suitable architecture. So 8 PS3s gives a
total of 56 CPU's. Plus the four of the desktop that would make 60.
I have mixed feelings about this piling up of hardware. On the one
hand it's exciting. Complex parallel processing to improve the level
of play is very interesting. On the other hand, I hope attention
doesn't only go towards putting more computing power together.
Mark
On 15-dec-08, at 08:23, Darren Cook wrote:
Advertisement: Fudo Go used a desktop pc (Intel Q9550) and _eight_
Playstation 3 consoles on a private Gigabit Ethernet LAN.
Hello Kato-sensei,
Are you able to use all 8 cores of the playstation? So, with the 4 of
the Q9550, 68 cores altogether? Do you, or your students, have any
papers on the hardware challenges/solutions?
Darren
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