In news sure to provoke a flamewar, The New York Times is reporting that an American military supercomputer "Roadrunner," has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. Why a flamewar? Because part of the machine's guts come from the PlayStation 3.
The world's fastest computer contains 116,640 processor cores, with 12,960 chips that are an improved version of the Cell processor at the heart of the PlayStation 3. According to the NY Times, "The Sony chips are used as accelerators, or turbochargers, for portions of calculations."
Roadrunner consumes around the power required by a large suburban shopping center and requires three separate programming tools because it has three types of processors. Programmers have to figure out how to keep all of the 116,640 processor cores in the machine occupied simultaneously in order for it to run.
On a top-secret tour, I typed "10: Print 'Stephen Rulez!' 20: Goto 10" into the Roadrunner, and it totally printed "Stephen Rulez" over a hundred times a minute! That's fast!
New York Times: Military Supercomputer Sets Record
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cuz on the real, if someone does, thats really sad.
but all in all good news for the american military.
"Whatever man the Blue-ray dis-k is slooowww as CR@ADKKAXjkln ckinscn"
I'm paraphrasing.
Or even " Cee!!!! this is why the Ps3 is the bes consle evar!!!!!!1 PS3FTW!!! and why everyone should get cnkc cbsabjuasc,k!!!"
Yeah and then the flaming begins.
How does that have anything to do with the PS3 when they're admitting it's an improved version? I'm confused. How improved is it? And how much does it even resemble the PS3 component? These are questions that should be answered before an article like that is written.
1 quadrillion huh? What the hell are they doing?
You could have the fastest, fanciest, sports car there is, but if you need it to bake a cake it's not very useful is it.
Don't need a fancy DVD player. I need a great gaming system with the games to match.
I'm really excited too. I got the Limited Edition from GameStop pre-order!
oh btw
watch these videos:
Lucky MoFo got MGS4 early:
(unboxing)
http://www.youtube. com/watch?v =DRlHal2VAYE
And this is just funny, even Hideo Kojima (it seems) is jumping into the "flame war"
http://my.break. com/Content/view. aspx?ContentID=516244
COUGH Like you post wasn't at all fanboy-ish. I'm going to play some GTA4/CoD4 on my 360, while I wait for MGS4 on my PS3.
Stfz. COUGH
Flame War? Any positive article that mentions the PS3, will be scrutinized by the Xbots then reworded, twist facts, Fabricate stories and outright lie about it in thier post. A PS3 clicks on the article then reads the Xbotcomment, and ALA Flame War.
Here is a tip, if you don't like the Playstation 3 stop reading the articles and posting comments.
and a word to sony fanboys: remember, it still took like 15 thousand ps3 chips to do this... thats not that much to brag over
Anyhoo................got my reserve for MGS, and I hope that this game marks the beginning of greatness for the PS3.
a.k.a - 360 processor
its most likely they are running the Cell at its full 4ghz rather than the down clocked 3.2ghz version in the PS3.
so the Cell in the PS3...
3.2ghz
7 of the 8 Synergistic Processors
the "improved" Cell
4ghz
and using all 8 of the synergistic processors
...this is just my guess however.
you spelled gaming wrong.
owned.
You try so hard to start flame wars don't you? I never mentioned 360s at all, you either you can't read or your trying to start a flame war. Theres no question which one it is
No dude, I'm totally against them. Why don't you stop trying to make me seem like a fanboy, and quit of life, or get a PS3 as well, loser?
I own all consoles, and I'm grateful for that, but apprently jealousy overcomes people likes you to post in Positive/Negative PS3 posts.
Wait wait wait, were you calling me a sony fanboy?? lol I don't own a PS3 and have no intention of buying a PS3 within the next 2 years
Stfx.
Rumor is that an upcoming update for the PS3 will give you an in-game XMB. Hopefully that is true.
And asking for a custom soundtrack for ALL games doesn't make any sense. It's not up to Sony. It's up to the game developers.
Not even the 360 gives you an option for custom soundtracks in all games.
I personally have both consoles and love them both. Currently, my PS3 is played more than my 360. Not because of the online features. Not because of a difference between "dashboard" options. It's because of the games I'm playing. Which also has nothing to do with "exclusivity". Loving GTA IV right now.
Had I bought it for the 360, I'm sure I'd be playing my 360 more than my PS3.
What does that mean?
It's about the gaming. Not about the trivial differences in the consoles options.
LOL "Quit trying to make everyone seem like a fanboy" from the guy who has called everyone that disagrees with him a fanboy
in other news: 3G IPHONE BABY!!! july 11th can't come fast enough!