"Cell" based ATX motherboards now available

[mpjesse]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/31/mercury_announces_cell_accelerator_board/

Seen this on TGDaily. Pretty interesting. Though, at $8000 it's hardly a real solution for anyone. But if it's as fast as it claims to be... it might be.

-mpjesse

 

[ryokinshin]

if it makes the mainstream market great, more competitors the better, but i would say no more then 4 cuz its would get way too hectic

 

[Eviltwin17]

too bad this technology is too expensive

 

[JonathanDeane]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/31/mercury_announces_cell_accelerator_board/

Seen this on TGDaily. Pretty interesting. Though, at $8000 it's hardly a real solution for anyone. But if it's as fast as it claims to be... it might be.

-mpjesse

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand if I win the lotto and I buy one would it help with Linux and Folding@home ? (since it has more floating point it seems like it would rip through like nothing...) but for me thats the only practical use I can think of lol im sad becouse I know there is more !

On the other hand this could make for a good PS3 emulator !!! lol

 

[mpjesse]

I think the only application Cell will ever see is supercomputing.

You're right, there's nothing pratical about Cell.

 

[JonathanDeane]

I think the only application Cell will ever see is supercomputing.

You're right, there's nothing pratical about Cell.

I think the only chance you would see Cell in a home PC type device is like 5 years out when the price has dropped down to almost nothing and they release them as Linux powered Google desktops. I dont see it as a PC games or office machine (Microsoft seems to have a death grip on those two markets lol) Yeah IBM/Linux/Google marketed by Walmart, I could see that happening someday.

Edit: on a side note in 5 years time HD TV's should be alot cheaper and this could open up the possibility of a Cell based compuer that just connects to your TV with a free OS I could see the price being in the 200-300 dollar range.

 

[NMDante]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/31/mercury_announces_cell_accelerator_board/

Seen this on TGDaily. Pretty interesting. Though, at $8000 it's hardly a real solution for anyone. But if it's as fast as it claims to be... it might be.

-mpjesse

Pretty nifty stuff if I wanted to build my own number crunching server or something. Maybe a nice little closet server farm. Hmm...

If it does catch on, the Cell could be a major player in the enterprise server realm, but if the board costs $8000-7000, then alot of companies will probably balk at it. I think Cell might be "donated" to some university first, to get some crediblity.