[mythtv-users] "Cell Microprocessor Simultaneously Decoding 48 MPEG-2 Streams"

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Mon May 2 17:59:48 UTC 2005


On 5/2/05, Devan Lippman <devan.lippman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope I can get one of these as the CPU for my machine!  Been a while
> since I read that explination but I think that its a series of power
> CPUs arranged similar to a beowulf cluster all on one chip which means
> it shouldn't be too far off from existing CPUs that linux will run on
> in the final presentation to the system.
> Interesting that they have a screenshot of the demo being replayed in
> windows media player and not the original demo... still I LOVE SMP and
> this should have the potential to kill current SMP, AMD and INTEL
> Multicore all in one hit.

Well, yes, but think of the cost.

Chances are running Dual Dual-core Opteron will be much better "Bang
for your buck" than getting a Cell system and having to write an x86
emulator, or porting the entire OS to Cell's instruction set
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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