Do these vendors really push the optimization envelope? It's too bad there isn't something like a game console (for profit) wrapped around this thing, that wou

Do these vendors really push the optimization envelope? It's too bad there isn't something like a game console (for profit) wrapped around this thing, that would really kickstart hardcore optimization. Much like the game consoles of old (ps-one, nes, snes, genesis), the devs would squeeze every last bit of performance out of those platforms, but there wasn't a non-gaming computing userbase to take advantage of those optimizations. I had heard the cell in the PS2 was used in some supercomputers, but that might have been the Cell whitepaper presenting unrealistic flops and someone on the Folding.Home taking the hype at face value.