Cell processor, representing the glory of the past, was once a black technology artifact, and was known as a single-chip supercomputer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now, in 2011, after at least three mole cycles, is the cell processor really lagging behind? Like, it's not!

The numbers speak for themselves!

In accordance with the idea of Nanlin Guiyi, the company has set up two of the strongest servers, including the most advanced and powerful server CPU of Intel in 2011!

Each server contains eight of them, each of which costs up to $5,999. However, each server provides only 3.84 to 4.48 tflops of computing power.

To put it simply, each server CPU provides about 0.48 Tflops to 0.56 Tflops, but it consumes up to 130 watts.

The Cell processor has a computing power of 0.256 tflops, and in the 2011 era, used PS3 consoles sold for between $150 and $180.

The Cell processor inside the two PS3 consoles provides about the same computing power as a server CPU.

However, the price comparison between the two is more than $300 versus $6,000.

What's more exaggerated is that the PS3 game console is already a complete system, and through the description of the document "Application Scheme of Asynchronous Structure CPU Series Array and Supercomputer", each PS3 game console is a reference point for the composition of a supercomputer.

But what about server CPUs?

This pit dad, also needs a series of hardware support, eight top-level servers, with a total investment of more than 120,000.

The two servers purchased by the company cost a total of $250,000!

If you use a cell processor to build a server with the same computing power, the computing power of two cell processors is roughly equivalent to that of a server CPU.

The computing power generated by 16 server CPUs requires 32 cell processors, which is 32 PS3 game consoles.

If you buy used PS3 consoles in bulk, you should be able to get a certain discounted price, which is calculated at $150 each, and the total price of 32 PS3 consoles is $4,800.

With the same computing power, a server built with Intel's latest products costs up to $250,000, while a second-hand PS3 game machine costs only $4,800.

In addition, in terms of power consumption, servers built with PS3 gaming machines should only be one-tenth of Intel's latest products.

Coupled with the advantage in terms of temperature, is the cell processor really old?

It doesn't seem to be!

The cell processor is worthy of the name of 'single-chip supercomputer', and it is also worthy of being called an epoch-making black technology chip and the honorary title of an ancient artifact.

Even in modern times, the Cell processor is still extremely powerful!

At least, from an economic point of view, the cost performance of the Cell processor is countless times more advanced than Intel's most advanced products, and it is completely a rhythm of hanging into slag.

However, with so many advantages and not bad performance, why is no one using a cell processor as a supercomputer solution?

In 2011, the most powerful supercomputer, which has not yet been announced, is the supercomputer Jing, which has a computing power of 8,162 tflops.

If a supercomputer with the same computing power were built using a Cell processor, it would require about 32,000 PS3 consoles, and the total cost would not exceed $5 million.

The R&D and construction costs of the supercomputer have exceeded 300 million US dollars!

Among the three major companies that developed Cell processors, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation, are both Japanese companies, and they are pillar companies, don't they know about Cell processors?

Obviously impossible!

Sony, Toshiba, and IBM announced one of the features of the cell processor at the beginning of the development of the cell processor, which has a special distributed computing technology that allows the cell processor to be connected in series to share computing power.

However, there are great difficulties in the application of this technology!

Even IBM, which does not use cell processors as a supercomputer construction solution, is that it is too difficult to implement distributed computing.

IBM misestimated the cell processor, and when dealing with distributed computing, the latency, calculation sequence logic, data aggregation scheme, task allocation scheme and other problems.

So, even though in theory, the cell processor has all the advantages, in practice, it is not easy to build the cell processor into a supercomputer.

From the supercomputer system based on the cell processor to the distributed computing scheme based on the cell processor, coupled with a series of problems, the cell processor was finally annihilated in the long river of history.

However, in the document "Application Scheme of Asynchronous Structure Central Processing Unit Serial Array and Supercomputer" obtained by Nanlin Guiyi, some of the solutions for building supercomputers with cell processors are listed.

Although it is only a part of the information, those materials provide ideas for Nanlin Guiyi, as if pushing open a brand new window and seeing a scenery that has never been seen before.

Based on those data, Nanlin Guiyi can try to use the cell processor to build his own supercomputer!

Nanlin Guiyi has always wanted his own private supercomputer, but the construction cost, operating cost and maintenance cost of the supercomputer, coupled with the huge goal, make Nanlin Guiyi have no way to achieve it.

But the documents obtained now,Allow Nanlin Guiyi to get his own supercomputer,And it is a supercomputer with very strong performance,If Nanlin Guiyi breaks through the technical difficulties,Using the supercomputer built by the PS3 game mechanism,It can even squeeze into the top ten of the supercomputer in the world!

The only problem that needs to be solved is how to build a supercomputer using the cell processor...

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