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Originally Posted by Joe Matt
So you pulled the numbers out of your $@#$@#$@#, it can't be in the 10 ten super computers, and even though the thing has power, it's specialized for multimedia.
The cell is cool, but I think everybody is hyping this up beyond belief. The cell is a high optimized processor for multimedia that is scalable.
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I totally agree that the PS3 Cell is completely optimized for multimedia use, and that, though it is powerful, it's certainly not a supercomputer. I can't attest to lukevanoort's numbers, however the numbers that I quoted are indeed from a bit of research. That's not to say that they could be wrong though. The wikipedia article on
Cell processors is a rather interesting read, and
does in fact provide you with some numbers that could be used to get a good sense of the power of the machine. Again though, everyone should remember (as you did Joe Matt) that this machine is designed for gaming. Part of the power of the Cell is going directly to graphical computations.
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