Comment Super Compuer Chip? (Score 0) 298
FTA: "So IBM may have suckered Sony into buying a supercomputing coprocessor disguised as a gaming chip".
Well no, not really. Most HPC workloads are double-precision heavy, and while the Cell/BE chip has very good single-precision numbers the double-precision performance isn't very good.
Well no, not really. Most HPC workloads are double-precision heavy, and while the Cell/BE chip has very good single-precision numbers the double-precision performance isn't very good.
