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Originally Posted by Respenus
This is very, very interesting. It just happens I read an article about personal "supercomputers" that run on Intel Xeon processors and uses Linux to enable clustering. Now the whole rig can cost from 25-60k $. Now imagine this with the new Intel chips. She prices would drop drastically.
Since I don't expect this lovely bit of technology to come knocking on our doorsteps for quite I while, I'd rather see CELL technology incorporated into PC chips. If it works so well for PS3, why can't it work in PCs?
Bah, I remember my first PC I bought in 1997 (we had a family PC long before that). It was a 166 Pentium II MMX, a couple of MBs on the GPU, couldn't have been more that 16 or 32 MB of RAM. Ah, those were the days. The games looked like crap compared to today's HD graphics, but still. They were very much playable. Ah, the good old days.
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CELL technology is already for PC!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/03/l...ng-pci-e-card/
Also I think 3 PS3s linked equals a small super computer but the things you do with a cell are different than an X86. Cells are great for crunching protein folding data while X86s kick ass with crunching business data.
Even a 20 buck ATI Theater 550 has an MPEG-2 chip on it. You are starting to see much more emphasis on chips doing their own work and less on the CPU.