For decades everyone was spoiled by Moore's law directly translating into an exponential speed increase, the CPU clock was going up exponentially to 3GHz which was reached in 2003, but in the last 5 years it seems to be stuck at that point. Instead, manufacturers try to pack multiple cores into a chip. People started to look for alternative ways to get faster computation (see MRSC 2008 conf.): Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) and most recently the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) from IBM-Sony-Toshiba.
Tony Williams over at the ChemConnector Blog has had a couple of people ask him for comments about which way to go and which one is better for a particular application. The writer of this article, though, just invested two man years of effort porting to the Cell/B.E. and not only does he have strong opinions he also have enough "hands-on experience" to comment.
Predecessor Preview – Crafting new with the old, is vying to make #Predecessor the definitive and most balanced rebirth of #Paragon.
RPG Site: "When we had the chance to play the upcoming Visions of Mana earlier this month, Square Enix was kind enough to offer us a chance to have a chat with the Mana Series Producer, Masaru Oyamada-san. We talked about the long wait for another release in the series, and what the goals were when developing it."
Capcom just released an update for its JRPG Dragon's Dogma 2 including the option to start a new game, some graphics options on consoles, and more. For now, it's available only on PS5 and Steam.
Nice too see its coming out of its beta state perhaps in 8 months time i wont need kernal drm to play a sp game.
good article there
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Developers or people genuinely interested in Cell development....
"The Cell/B.E Developers group aims to bring together Cell developer specialists world-wide for the purposes of collaboration, networking and to ease resourcing for projects utilising this unique architecture"
http://www.linkedin.com/gro...
Thought someone might be intrigued. Found it in the articles comment section.
they need to make CPU's that are over 4 GHZ
Funny how there isn't much fanboyism going on in here...yet. Certain people on N4G can only "talk" and downplay the benefits, prospects, possibilities and untapped power of the Cell B.E. but these guys at Simbiosys.ca actually make stuff and DO things that PROVE otherwise.
http://www.simbiosys.ca/sci...
http://www.rapidmind.net/ca...