Wednesday, February 23, 2005
I'm really tired of the Cell hype. It's just a new chip with a lightning fast memory interface, with a whole bunch of weird DSP-like interfaces that are going to be a bitch to program for. Yawn. I'm much more excited about the Cirrus Logic EP9302, which eats half a watt, costs 9 bucks, and has an honest to god FPU on it.
It will take years more for a Cell workstation to be more useful than a space heater.
However, when these babies ship - if IBM/Sony were to give one to each of the top 500 kernel and compiler developers in the world... along with a lifetime supply of pizza and beer... they might cut that time down considerably. I fully expect them to set up a public cluster much like they do now for people porting to their mainframes... ¶ 2:17 PM
It will take years more for a Cell workstation to be more useful than a space heater.
However, when these babies ship - if IBM/Sony were to give one to each of the top 500 kernel and compiler developers in the world... along with a lifetime supply of pizza and beer... they might cut that time down considerably. I fully expect them to set up a public cluster much like they do now for people porting to their mainframes... ¶ 2:17 PM
