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Originally Posted by cottonvibes
that link dosn't show anything interesting :O
just a HD decoder with cell processors.
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Here's what it actually is:
A PCI-E card (or board) with a processor based on the Cell BE, operating at 1.5GHz, with 4 SPEs, and 128MB of XDRAM.
The most practical usage for this thing is for decoding and encoding HD movies. But hey, since we have the RAM and the processor... we might as well... do other things.
Ever heard of GPGPU?
Edit: by the way, Linux on the PS3 was running... almost on one of these at twice the clock speed. Reason? The SPEs... are pretty much useless for anything other than number crunching. But... that's their strong point. This card would make a PERFECT replacement for PhysX or something similar... assuming we have applications that take advantage of that. And if we have two of these... on a bus with higher speed (I'm thinking PCI-Express 16x) and they are overclockable to 3.2GHz or above, I'd... assume PS3 emulation is pretty much a big "G" with a big "O."