Realistically could companies use the Cell processor for more complicated calculations in current year...

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

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Maybe, but that shit would get so toasty that the inefficiency would render any costs saved null.

1,000 lines for hello world

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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.

>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

>90nm for phat, 45nm for slim
Yeah, no

A single 3990x has 70 times the single precision performance
A 3090 has 200 times the performance

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)

No, the Cell BE isn't anything special. It's a fucking in-order processor from 2006. I bet a proper out of order contemporary like a Pentium D would shit all over it in most cases.

actually, consider this, why weren't people using ps3's to mine buttcoins?
they were only the most cost-effective solution for some things in a fairly small window of time, like anything else

it's the 6 SPEs that's interesting about it, not the single shitty PPC core

what made the ps3 special was that it basically had GPGPU in 2006 for the cost of a toy (an expensive toy, but still)
the ps3 was originally designed so the SPEs WERE the gpu, only near the end did they put a normal gpu in instead and delegated the SPEs to co-processors

Mark Cerny is fucking insane for STILL having only himself know exactly how the PS3 worked and never sharing it with anyone aside from those secret CELL developers at Sony.

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Imagine pumping hundreds of millions into R&D for this processor with the intent of putting it in so many appliances and eventually only putting it into one. Toshiba and IBM must've felt burned by the end of the deal, holy fuck.
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Any gpu wirh vulkan or cuda does the same as the cell processor, but 10-20 times faster

yep, modern gpus have caught up in functionality and surpassed it in performance and power efficiency, some time ago as well
it was very interesting in 2006, but there's no point using it now for anything but ps3 games

What neat things can one do with a PS3 nowadays besides gaymen?

I have a fat launch model lying around, full of PS3 and PSX/PS1 games that I don't play.

Basically the same shit you can do with any old console, softmod and install an SSD and that's about it. You can play around with Linux on it, maybe run some janky unmaintained emulators and play pirated games.
Since it's a launch model, you should probably clean out the vents, repaste it and maybe even get it capped if you want it to last a while.