You make some very valid points. I will have to check out the power station I was not aware of its coming release. I was not aware what so ever of the pci-x limitation on the toshiba design.
Its fairly interesting that noone has to date released a full cell based consumer machine. On Jun 28, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:14:42 -0500 > Michael Rockwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Toshiba had a cell based laptop coming soon. But very pricey. >> >> >> >> >> On Jun 28, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:01:52 -0500 >>> "Ron Rogers Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> After lurking on this list for what seemed like forever, I >>>> finally have a PS3. >>> >>> Congrats! I haven't made that move yet. I would prefer the cell in >>> a laptop >>> running ydl. It may never happen. > > Hi Mike! > > I've read some details on it's design. Toshiba designed that laptop > such that > the Cell is restricted to doing video processing, the Cell itself is > not the > primary processor. The Cell off-loads or removes from the Intel > processor > nearly all work having to do with video high def processing. The very > nature of the design reveals the weakness of the Intel architecture > demonstrating how unprepared it is to handle such complex work. > Also the > Toshiba design is such that the Cell is only available through the > PCI-x (a > variant of the more familiar and standard PCI design). Also the > Cell, in > Toshiba's implementation has 4 cores, not 8 - as exists in the PS3. > > Of course, that makes a powerful demonstration of how strong the > Cell is that > it is helping Intel appear functional in modern video processing. > However the > design as it stands presents problems if one was looking forward to > running the > Cell as one runs the PS3 under YDL. I'm not at all sure that the > engineering > wasn't intentional to prevent lovers of PowerPC/Cell technology from > doing what > they can imagine. > > In short, the only real choice power users have is the new YDL > PowerStation > (available shortly here: > http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/index.php?submit=hardware&submitimg[hardware][powerstation]=1 > > ) > indeed well named for all it's flexibilty, or resort to prying open > the > PS3. > > I well admit to wanting what corporations refuse to currently > provide, an 8+ > core Cell with at least 3TB of solid state storage and .5PB (peta) > of RAM in a > laptop. Having said that, the YDL PowerStation will at least address > my lust for > processing power. Of course, I'd like to figure out how to stuff in > there two > or three Cells in a parallel hypercuboid system supported by an > improbability > engine powered with an inexhaustible supply of brownian motion -- > then maybe > I'll feel better. :) > > Well, there's always hope. > > ===== > "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often > think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms > of > music. ... I get most joy in life out of music." > > "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester > Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
