That was a very dick move from Sony. They promoted it like crazy and got a lot of us investing time on this architecture just to back-stab us in the end.
On the other hand, a large institution can invest in a PS3 development kit and develop their crunching software to run within Sony's OS.
Anyway, Cell is dead and both Intel and AMD have similar architectures coming out next year for x86. I wouldn't bet on PS3/Cell right now.
On the other hand, a large institution can invest in a PS3 development kit and develop their crunching software to run within Sony's OS.
Anyway, Cell is dead and both Intel and AMD have similar architectures coming out next year for x86. I wouldn't bet on PS3/Cell right now.