PS3 F@H crunch
15 Apr 2007 21:49:26 UTC
Topic 192592
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Sony maybe doing PR about its PS3 crunch of Folding at Home but nevertheless the performance is so great that i wonder what special have the Sony put into their CPUs to make it ?
Are we entering the age of DC (distributed computing) specialized CPUs ?
PS3 F@H crunch
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This is a really easy explanation. The PS3 has 9 Cell Processors all running at roughly 1000MHz... now this program is designed for distribution over multiple computers via networks and extra cpu cycles. The PS3 hardware is similar to 9 different computers all running what one processor would do. The dual core and the quad core computers are vastly superior to the single cores and the dual quad cores out perform those numbers that GPU and PS3 combined together. Who wants to see them run @Home on the X360? I know I do! Thats a tricore system similar to the Pentium D running @ 3.2ghz a core! That would be some number crunching.
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