PSIII (PlayStation 3) Information

[KLowD9x]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120395,00.html

Pretty interesting...I want one of those chips!!!

 

[cursor]

Cool. Sounds like this has the potential to be a major advance in set-top boxes. Can we get it to fold, I wonder?

 

[KLowD9x]

That would be really useful...I wonder how the floating point is? Gromacs anyone?

 

[progamer]

100 times more calculations per second than a 2.5 ghz p4? Sounds pretty far-fetched to me. And think about the price .

 

[KLowD9x]

Couldnt even imagine...thats why I stopped buying console systems...

 

[MajinSSJVegetto]

I can't wait for playstation 9. Sniffing snow out of a sphere to play games.

 

[nealric]

Shin'ichi Okamoto, chief technical officer for Sony Computer Entertainment, said research efforts for the PlayStation 3 are focusing on distributed computing, a method for spreading computational tasks across myriad networked computers.

(from the article) Its going to use linux and the above statment looks like it might be a folder