On 5/2/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope I can get one of these as the CPU for my machine! Been a while > since I read that explination but I think that its a series of power > CPUs arranged similar to a beowulf cluster all on one chip which means > it shouldn't be too far off from existing CPUs that linux will run on > in the final presentation to the system. > Interesting that they have a screenshot of the demo being replayed in > windows media player and not the original demo... still I LOVE SMP and > this should have the potential to kill current SMP, AMD and INTEL > Multicore all in one hit.
Well, yes, but think of the cost. Chances are running Dual Dual-core Opteron will be much better "Bang for your buck" than getting a Cell system and having to write an x86 emulator, or porting the entire OS to Cell's instruction set -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
