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> I'd love it if the progress being made in the industry got us to actually being able to exploit the full potential of such architectures. If they had ever re
by UncleEntity 9y ago
> I'd love it if the progress being made in the industry got us to actually being able to exploit the full potential of such architectures.
If they had ever released it as a general purpose computer instead of a locked down game console people could've experimented with it enough to unlock its full potential.
If they were smart they'd dust off the old chips, throw them on a RasberryPi type system and laugh all the way to the bank.
- krylon 9y agoThere were PCI-Express cards with Cells on them, for numbercrunching or something. These even used the "good" Cells with full 64-bit floating point numbers needed for scientific workloads. I vaguely remember that the price tag I saw was so outrageous I can understand why that didn't go anywhere. Would have been interesting, though, I agree.