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Subject: Re: Cell Architecture

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 17:41:10 01/21/05

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On January 21, 2005 at 18:47:05, Ian Osgood wrote:

>Has anyone thought about using the upcoming Cell Architecture computers for
>chess processing?
>
>http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html
>
>Ian

Cell will suck for chess.  I'm tired of explaining the whole
latency-vs-bandwidth thing, so I'll leave that for someone else.

anthony

P.S. If they manage to clock a POWER5 core at 5 GHZ (note that IBM sells cores
no faster than 1.8 or so) I'll eat my shorts.



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