PS3s Cell Processor to be used in Supercomputer

Domo · 7 Sep 2006 at 12:31

Sorry if it's already been posted (did a seach for Cell + IBM).

Cool stuff - 16,000 Cells + 16,000 "standard" processors = 1.6 thousand trillion calculations per second :eek:

Src:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5322704.stm

DaveyD · 7 Sep 2006 at 12:33

That's rather powerful

Though it's not exactly a GD thread is it?

starscream · 7 Sep 2006 at 12:35

Supercomputer due to be released in April.... No, November..... No, March......

Mr.Orb · 7 Sep 2006 at 12:43

starscream said:
Supercomputer due to be released in April.... No, November..... No, March......

lol, no doubt.

Domo · 7 Sep 2006 at 12:48

starscream said:
Supercomputer due to be released in April.... No, November..... No, March......

lol. And no, it's probably not GD (oops). If one of the mods would like to move it to the CPU section please..

Bri · 7 Sep 2006 at 12:58

starscream said:
Supercomputer due to be released in April.... No, November..... No, March......

Sounds like the new Wembley....

locutus12 · 7 Sep 2006 at 13:19

edit:
bolloxed up here.

locutus12 · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:40

The laboratory is owned by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Eventually the machine could be used for a programme that ensures the US nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe and reliable, the DOE said in a statement.

why is it every time the bloody US government orders a super computer they claim its to be used "for a programme that ensures the US nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe and reliable" havent they got any other bloody ideas for the damn thing ?

every sodding time they get a super computer they say in the news that it will be used for the same thing... the nuclear weapons stockpile! surely one super computer is more than enough to run what ever nuclear simulation you want on it America! now how about getting off your fat arses and using that super computer for a little climate modelling, perhaps then youl get an idea of just how much your helping to **** up the planet.

:mad:

oweneades · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:44

Domo said:
Sorry if it's already been posted (did a seach for Cell + IBM).

Cool stuff - 16,000 Cells + 16,000 "standard" processors = 1.6 thousand trillion calculations per second
Src:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5322704.stm

but but but if they use the cell for the supercomputers then surely there won't be any for the ps3?!

NathanE · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:53

Where do they plan to get 16,000 cell processors from considering Sony is having issues producing even just a handful?

PhilthyPhil · 7 Sep 2006 at 21:23

NathanE said:
Where do they plan to get 16,000 cell processors from considering Sony is having issues producing even just a handful?

I thought they were planning on shipping 2 million PS3s or something like that to USA and Japan by the end of the year? I wouldn't have thought the US government will struggle to get hold of 16,000, which is in the scheme of things quite a small number.

Nozzer · 7 Sep 2006 at 21:25

How much has Sony paid for this little marketing gem, then?

Fulcrum · 7 Sep 2006 at 21:29

locutus12 said:
why is it every time the bloody US government orders a super computer they claim its to be used "for a programme that ensures the US nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe and reliable" havent they got any other bloody ideas for the damn thing ?

If they pay that much money for something so important maybe they dont want to say what its really going to be used for. The order itself is harder to cover up

da_mic_1530 · 7 Sep 2006 at 21:37

no wonder they are having ps3 shortages

seriously though, sounds very powerful

NathanE · 7 Sep 2006 at 21:38

PhilthyPhil said:
I thought they were planning on shipping 2 million PS3s or something like that to USA and Japan by the end of the year? I wouldn't have thought the US government will struggle to get hold of 16,000, which is in the scheme of things quite a small number.

"planning"

Yewen · 7 Sep 2006 at 21:40

Was the Cell not designed by a group of companies, as a processor for IBM or something first and for the PS3 second or third...

It most certainly was not desgined exclusively for use in the PS3, and the way things are going the supercomputer will be made, and available for the general public to buy, by the time the PS3 ships.

Una · 7 Sep 2006 at 22:48

Yewen said:
Was the Cell not designed by a group of companies, as a processor for IBM or something first and for the PS3 second or third...

It most certainly was not desgined exclusively for use in the PS3, and the way things are going the supercomputer will be made, and available for the general public to buy, by the time the PS3 ships.

Yeah it was developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM together.

pinkacidbootson · 7 Sep 2006 at 22:59

NathanE said:
Where do they plan to get 16,000 cell processors from considering Sony is having issues producing even just a handful?

Sony has a stockpile of 3 million Cell proccessors ready to go into PS3's, they have no trouble manufacturing them. Its the laser diode thing they are having trouble with.

iraiguana · 7 Sep 2006 at 23:40

all the old super computers get used to crack encryption mate, so need a new pooter to run the models and then crack the new encryption in its spare time

Energize · 8 Sep 2006 at 00:08

Johanson said:
Sony has a stockpile of 3 million Cell proccessors ready to go into PS3's, they have no trouble manufacturing them. Its the laser diode thing they are having trouble with.

If you don't count the 20% cpu yields......