[hashcash] PlayStation 3 - 16 trillion floating point operations / second
- From: John Honan <jhonan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:07:40 +0000
It'd be nice to benchmark this one.... :-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4051983.stm
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Some details of the chip inside Sony's PlayStation 3 have been
revealed.* Sony, IBM and Toshiba have released limited data about the
so-called Cell chip that will be able to carry out trillions of
calculations per second.<> The chip will be made of several different
processing cores that work on tasks together. The PlayStation 3 is
expected in 2006 but developers are expecting to get prototypes early
next year to tune games that will appear on it at launch.
When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects
it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or
calculations, every second.
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