To: RadioAstronomer; Marine_Uncle; ShadowAce; NormsRevenge
A super computer for your PC....well sort of!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
A big reason this thing costs so much is because the target market for these things, at least out the gate, is defense contractors for signal processing related work.
That why they cost so much.
3 posted on
08/02/2006 5:10:04 PM PDT by
RFC_Gal
(It's not just a boulder; It's a rock! A ro-o-ock. The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It's about time someone came out with a PCI Express card that wasn't just for gamers.
4 posted on
08/02/2006 5:12:31 PM PDT by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I guess the market for this is a) PS3 developers (?), signal processing developers, and some general purpose programmers.
However, I know people developing commercial applications for Cell, and it appears to be a major pain. You both have to direct instructions to go into those "Special Processing" units it has, and the PowerPC inside of it can't handle out-of-order instructions, leading to major coding headaches.
10 posted on
08/02/2006 5:43:14 PM PDT by
Yossarian
(Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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