Realistically could companies use the Cell processor for more complicated calculations in current year? Getting a PlayStation 3 with old firmware is relatively cheap in bulk compared to buying a supercomputer
Realistically could companies use the Cell processor for more complicated calculations in current year...
Logan Sullivan
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Justin Gutierrez
Maybe, but that shit would get so toasty that the inefficiency would render any costs saved null.
Josiah Reyes
1,000 lines for hello world
Nathaniel Sanchez
Alexander Bell
we fly high no lie
Blake Lewis
Air Force discontinued that service and sold the condor cluster of PS3's a few years ago. Neat how they did calcations with that many consoles. Isn't there like one university in the U.S. that still uses hundreds of PS3's to simulate black holes?
That's on the developer side, no? I heard it was somewhat easy for people to make a Linux based PS3 do complex calculations (not developing games) and the system was great for that.
Camden King
>Getting a PlayStation 3 with old firmware is relatively cheap in bulk compared to buying a supercomputer
Enjoy getting it ylod'd after 1 use
Jason Nguyen
>90nm for phat, 45nm for slim
Yeah, no
Kevin Stewart
A single 3990x has 70 times the single precision performance
A 3090 has 200 times the performance
Luke Collins
at this point i highly doubt a ps3 cluster can compete with modern gpus in cost/speed/size/power
it only made sense in 2006 when they were a subsidised console (they typically sell consoles with little to no mark-up because they're expecting to make up the difference with game software sales)