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Subject: Re: Speaking of Cell architecture...sdk + simlulator out

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 12:37:14 11/10/05

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On November 10, 2005 at 12:19:00, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>A simulator has been released for testing the cell architecture. I'm not sure if
>this is the same Cell process that's going to be in the PS3 or if it's something
>different; since it's labeled the "cell broadband engine processor"
>
>http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cellsystemsim
>
>There's also a full gcc toolchain for porting apps and writing code for the
>system.
>
>-Josh

Playing chess on the Cell will probably be like driving car races with a power
mower; it's possible but it will never reach the level of a decent PC chip. The
thing is a vector processing and SIMD beast, not something that's really useful
for chess.
I don't want to dissencourage anybody to write a chess program for the
Playstation3/Xbox 360, but I would not expect to much from it, or you'll
probably be dissappointed.

regards
Andy



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