Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 07:55:21 11/10/05
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Interesting, I haven't found or read the specs of the PS3 for when it comes out. Though I have followed the cell arch a bit, seems like an amazing concept. -Josh >On November 09, 2005 at 15:12:50, Joshua Shriver wrote: > >>I was reading (though not verified) that the Xbox 360 is going to have 3 cores >>running at 3.2ghz using a PPC architecture, with network capabilities. > >Perhaps you confuse Xbox with a playstation3 from Sony. >It's supposed to get a 3.x Ghz cell processor. Besides a main processor it has 8 >'help' processors. 1 such processor is dedicated to the OS, the other 7 are >available for example for a chessprogram :) > >A major problem of it will be that you need to rewrite your chessprogram >completely. I mean *every* byte, to get it to work at that hardware at a decent >speed. > >But then you'll have something. > >Who pays for that rewrite? > >>Wouldn't this make a great system for running a chess engine? >>At $350 it seems really cheap for that much processing power. >> >>Comments are appreciated. >> >>Josh
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