Can anyone point me to a url, or tell me what their experience is with this technology? Is it as fast as it's purported to be?
I haven't come anywhere near a Cell, but then again, I'm not sure I'd want to. 14.6 Gflops (64b, and assuming the full 8 SPE's) isn't bad, but then again, a 3 GHz Core2 dual-core is 24 Gflops, and almost certainly a lot more accessible, shipping now, runs linux, supported by compilers and goto-blas, etc.
if you could readily get a 8-16x PCIE card with 2 or more Cell chips and a bunch of ~50 GB/s local memory, for cheap, it could be quite something.
Apparently RedHat is developing EL 4.3 to run on the system?
to an OS, it's basically a kinda low-end PPC chip with 8 very weird FP coprocessors, the latter not relevant to the OS...
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