From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 19:19:26 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury
> Though I'm not sure it makes me happy (due to potential
> for colonizations for PVNs and subversion by amoral AIs)
> it looks like we will have ~1 TFLOP game consoles by 2005.
> See:
> Playstation 3 chip nears completion
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,,t275,00.html
> or Slashdot discussion:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/06/1433253?mode=threa
> d?tid=137
> The there are few details on the architecture available, it
> looks to be positioned between a Power PC architecture (2 CPUs)
> and the Blue Gene chips (probably many CPUs). Of course it
> is getting kind of hard at this point to differentiate between
> ALUs and CPUs (composed of a variety of ALUs).
>
> It looks like they are trying to make the "cells" in the
> Playstation 3 chips blur the distinction between ALUs and CPUs.
>
> Robert
>
Look out for the subsequent generations with growing numbers of cells.
Where one playstation can treat another as a cell......
This is where the program/data line blurs and generalisation has its seeds.
Colin
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