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The PS3 is so powerful, it can drive a car |
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Just how powerful is the Sony PlayStation 3 game console? We know for a fact that it can produce cutting-edge sound and graphics at a whim. We already know that it can help doctors fight tumors. Now we're about to find out that it's good enough to drive a car atop Colorado's Pike Peak.Yep, and we're not talking about doing it in a racing game. We're dead serious when we say that you can take the back seat and the console will guide a car effortlessly when partnered with GPS, infrared cameras, stereo cameras and Yellow Dog Linux.
At the center of it all, of course, is the Cell processor which we've heard all too well about. Based on the same technology that fires up IBM's Power PCs, the Cell uses its mathematical muscle to do all the complex calculations at lightning-fast speeds to effectively pull off the automotive feat.
Racing's renowned team Axion will showcase this incredible development in the upcoming DARPA Challenge sponsored by the US Government. At stake is US$ 2 million to be won.
Axion has come close to winning the contest twice before as they ranked sixth a few years back and finished in at third in their last outing. Autonomous driving has always been their cup of tea but this time they want to add a little sugar to their spice by throwing in the high-end game console to the repertoire.
"We felt having cars drive themselves was getting a little too easy, so we threw the Sony PlayStation into our bag of tricks," says Axion team leader Bill Kehaly as he jokes around with the idea. The DARPA Challenge takes place on the 3rd of November in a venue yet to be announced.
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and for the people who dont seem to understand what people say, i am taking the piss
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Xbox360 ---> Drives car on mountain suddenly scrapes the DVD ,ring of death, and crashes car off the hill. hhaha xbots just don't comment on this, it's just something people like to play around with so chill out. Amazing how people want to do more interesting things with a ps3 then an xbox340. And for the morons saying no games there's plenty to play with you just want to pick on the unit because you're stuck with your xbox350.
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These guys would be better off getting a Cell blade from IBM to do this though....
Also if it went to the consumer level, where cars were built with this, do you think they would be sticking PS3's in the trunk to do the calculations ? No, it would just be a computer running on a Cell....
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P.S. MooHaaas05 the 60 gig PS3 is $499.99 after a price drop because it wasn't selling, the core 360 is $299.99, the premium 360 with the 20 gig hard drive is $399.99 and the elite is $479.99 and has 60 more gigs than your PS3 and 20 bucks cheaper in the end
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I would rather have a system that has not alot of games and are great than a high library that breaks due to RRoD.
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Intel Core 2 extremes @ 2.93 GHZ are $1400 canadian just for a CPU...that's two PS3's and a game, which have better CPU's in them (plus everything else)....
But hey, this is the stuff cell was made for. It really could probably drive 3 cars at once....
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The 360 has a high library that breaks?
When are you going to give up that old, old argument? Then deliver it in a manner that makes you look soooo stupid. It's not even an issue 360 owners care about so why do you?
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for a little compare of this news. The Boeing 777 uses computers based on Intel 486 and AMD. So, it's really more difficulty drive a car than pilot an airplane???
Only that, that is the first time of use of a Video Game to drive a car, but it's not because the power of the CELL processor.
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Do you know how many parameters is available to process in a Fly by wire system? Parameters like speed, altitude, mach, column, wheel, pedal, sideslip, angle of attack, roll angle, thrust, etc...
Much more parameters and, is very important that: a car is a stable system and a Fly by wire aircraft is instable.
My little and S.T.U.P.I.D boy, learn something before discussion.
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*** PS3 Cell = 9 cores, 1 Symmetrical and 8 Asymmetrical. Capable of running Game OS and 8 completely different Operating Systems working on 8 separate programs not just threads. But over 64 separate threads with over 3000 elements possible.
*** PS3 is compared to a Mini Render Farm and when the first IBM "Gameframe" goes "LIVE" this winter the combined distributed compute power will be approximately 8 PFLOPS making the PS3 "PSN" the most powerful computing entity world has ever seen!
*** Giving each and every PS3 owner the power of the sum total of all the Cell powered devices Worldwide. That's just with Brazil's "Gameframe". Then when we will have Los Alamos Research Lab IBM Hybrid Cell/AMD Gameframe more than doubling that power.
*** So combined with the many Cell Powered Devices that will power everything from "Future Force Warrior Program's" backpack computers, Cell phones, HDTV's, DOD Hybrid Supercomputer, NASA Hybrid Supercomputer, Automobiles, Airport Security Systems with Facial/Voice Recognition, and every PS3; the Cell BE will once and for all dominate our entire electronics Universe for decades.
*** No single computer could ever demonstrate, what this task of actually steering a vehicle up Pike's Peak with shear dropoffs and many many hairpin turns. That's why D.A.R.P.A. has plucked a $2 million prize down for this!
*** In theory the only possible single computer that could accomplish this today, is the Sony PS3! The equivalent in Xbox 360's would need 8 of them to even come close to accomplish this! That's how powerful the Cell BE chip is in it's Mini Render Farm configuration!! !
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http://www.gamernewz.net
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My point is, until another Next Gen gaming console comes out to provide competition at the PS3's Next Gen level then the PS3 will do poorly. In Developers eyes, the XBOX360 is better to make games for because its easier, cheaper, faster, and it can be put on the PS3 no problem.
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"im a 12 year old kid that just learned some new words."
do us all a favor and get off the interweb until your mommy says its ok again and let us have a constructive conversation....ARTARD
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LOL! Where the hell did you get that from? Go find a single article on the internet that says that! The PS3 has a PPE core which supports 2 threads and each SPE is equivalent to a single thread.
"The equivalent in Xbox 360's would need 8 of them to even come close to accomplish this! That's how powerful the Cell BE chip is in it's Mini Render Farm configuration!! !"
I suggest you go away and do some research instead of pulling numbers out of your sore a$$.
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Hence in future, more and more 360 games will feature 4XAA, and it will achieve this much better and with far less of a performance hit than 4XAA on the PS3.
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firstly, xbox fan boys; piss off... if you've got nothing constructive to say then don't say anything; and if you have no interest in the PS3 then stop reading articles on it!
PS3 fan boys; shut the hell up and stop pulling irrelevant stats out of your ass... even in the very unlikely event of you comprehending what the figures mean, most people aren't going to understand them and will ignore them, so shush.
the article is talking about alternative use of technology here... of course a high end PC could undoubtedly do the same thing as a PS3, the article clearly states "We felt having cars drive themselves was getting a little too easy, so we threw the Sony PlayStation into our bag of tricks," ... this is much a publicity thing as it is a challenge set by the team hoping to achieve this feat.
oh, and FYI; a computer would have a harder time driving a car than piloting a plane; which is why most jet liners have had autopilot for years as standard whilst the self driving car is still in its prototype stages...
The PSone had more processing power than it took to put man on the moon (supposedly), a PS3 driving a car isn't that surprising...
but once again I ask fanboys to STFU; this is not a case of "LOLZ, the ps3 can dive a car! its better than the xbox!", until someone develops a car that can be operated by a 360 the argument can't be drawn up...
and its also totally irrelevant; colin mckrae is a better driver than me, but I bet I make a better cup of chai tea than he does! likewise, just because a computer has better driving ability it doesn't mean it outperforms in other areas too...
just my 2 cents.
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