The Cell is a magnificent piece of hardware. However, I would just like to echo preinterpost's comment on betanews: the Cell is notoriously difficult to program

The Cell is a magnificent piece of hardware. However, I would just like to echo preinterpost's comment on betanews: the Cell is notoriously difficult to program. Getting efficient speedups requires the most skilled programmers and quite a bit of effort. To understand the difficulties in programming its worth taking a look at this article: http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/197801624?pgno=5 http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/197801624?... "preinterpost