New board based on PS3 processor to be unveiled next week |
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A collaboration between three giants in the hardware industry, IBM Corp., Sony (and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.,) and Toshiba Corp., has given life to a new prototype computer board. The board, powered by the PS3's powerful graphics processor, will be presented at SIGGRAPH in the US next week.The "Cell Computing Board" can do up to 230G Flops and
is small enough to be mounted into a 1U-size server for a 19-inch rack mount, combines the Cell Broadband Engine microprocessor and RSX graphics processor. This pairing results in a high-power computing platform that goes beyond the power of the Cell chip alone, said Sony. The company did not disclose precise performance data for the board.
SIGGRAPH will be held from August 7 to 9 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Via Yahoo News
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here comes another ps3 model revision @_@
awesome new rumble controller. Pro-asxis controller
im not sure if your serious or not but this has nothing too do with ps3. its the cell chip for a server. not a ps3.
i misread the whole piece of text XD
Not for the PS3, then this shouldnt be in the PS3 news :D
hahaha. STI is always coming out w/ stuff bigger and better. Sony will recal all PS3s in store and re release the PS3 as the PS4!( or just call it a revised PS3). Yay for STI! All they need to do is have Sony or STI make its own PC OS and take down Microsoft!
Some stupid children don´t understand the news so why they read it ... It´s a new server plataform server based on CELL processor, and omg 230GFlop per server, *****ing hell this is really power full, for research it will be the best server on the market ... Imagine this server running with Cisco super-routers, omg the throughtput of the services will be easy for them ...
Does this mean that a Linux RSX driver might be forthcoming? We can only hope, I suppose...
I think this can´t be ported for use with our linux, and who buy this servers don´t will leak this drivers on net ... I think this drivers will help in the cpu alghorithms like on MAC Servers ... that the video board complement the arithmetic calcules ..
Sony locked out the RSX because of security, so it would be useless in the PS3 anyway....
why would a server need RSX in the processor? all it does is host stuff doesn't it?
because CELL has MULTI processors hence it can provide/serve/host to MORE at once. thats the keyword MORE! its like asking why do i need quad core 2 duo when i have a fast OC 5ghz celeron/pentium, all i need this cpu is to play? having more is sometimes better dude!
This sounds like a server version of the PS3 that is rackmountable, for all those buisnesses out there using the PS3 as a server who don't want to look cheap when some other IT guy walks in and starts making fun of the fact that there are numerous game consles in their IT room. I have to wonder if sony is going to charge a lot more for this system then the now 499 $ PS3. I also have to wonder that regardless of the price if they will still include the bluray drive. I doubt it. One thing that may be good about this is that if sony toshiba and IBM actually are thinking, then they will give the PS3 more RAM, something like at least a gigabyte. Anyway just some ideas to throw out on the table.
You people are putting words in this newsitem that were never there. THIS IS NOT A PS3 BASED SYSTEM. The only thing similar between the two is the RSX GPU, and the CELL CPU. It is a SERVER, NOT a GAME CONSOLE. Big difference. That aside, the 240 Gflops is quite impressive, and the many cores would be great for divying up different processes and workloads.
ps3 suxs halo rulesss alll ahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahahahhahahaah ps3 is going nowhere besides the trash or in this case gamestop so you can return it and buy a 360 since you ps3 blows like yellowstone
Wow, Just wow.
I knew that sometime a troll went here to post this *****s ... man i have x360 too and HALO 3 SUCKS A LOT !!! The demo sucks and the game will suck, understand it ... you are a children that just like what the companies tell that you have to like ... grow up ...
Said for the obviously troll, your just a hypocrite seeming how your also a troll. First off i don't have xbox360 but how can you say halo 3 will suck. Thats like saying god of war 3 will suck. I mean have you played the completed version of halo3 no, considering no one else had. You don't like the demo who cares its your opinion, a very false one, but opinion nonetheless. Many had said the same for NGS but look how awesome that game is. Please keep your fanboyish rant to your self. Besides what does that have to do with this article. Wow its mind boggling
Sorry i press the submit button accidentally. As i was saying its mind boggling how some actually think this has anything to do with PS3 system. Wow i guess reading isn't in your vocabulary
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yeah but why would it need a graphics processor? unless they're utilizing it for extra power or something
I was not trying to say that they were making a rackmountable PS3 game console. I just assumed that everyone who knew anything on these posts had thought about using linux on PS3 as cheap server. Sony wouldn't make a rackmount game console. That would be somewhat stupid. However I was refering to the new board as the PS3 because "Cell Computing Board" is too long and it is based on PS3 parts The PS3 and the new board will not be THAT much different because considering that the 80GB PS3 will not have the emotion engine or the other PS2 parts inside; the 80GB PS3 will basically be a cell procesor and an RSX chip with RAM and audio, along with a few integrated peripherals like wifi and a HDD. Now the "Cell Computing Board" sounds more like a coplete computer without peripherals and drives, not just a board with a processor and graphics chip. When you look inside a PS3 you note thatk ALMOST everything is included on a single board minus the drives and peripherals. I believe that if you payed some people at IBM and SONY enough money that they would develop a way to play some PS3 games on the "Cell Computing Board."
Matt: "I believe that if you payed some people at IBM and SONY enough money that they would develop a way to play some PS3 games on the "Cell Computing Board." Why would Sony do that it defies the purpose and existence of the PS3 ?!
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