Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 22:15 UTC
Mercury Computer Systems announced a USD 7999 accelerator card Tuesday that uses the Cell Broadband Engine processor that plugs into a computer's PCI slot. The Cell Accelerator Board, which will be generally available in the first quarter of 2007, can speed tasks such as signal processing or image rendering, Mercury said in an announcement at the Siggraph computer graphics show.
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RE: Cell Accelerator Board
by digitaldisaster on Wed 2nd Aug 2006 00:46
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Not much info in that short article IMO
It is really expensive but if this turns your tame little PC into a hugely capable workstation then it might be worth the price .
And of course - spare money - you can allways slot in a few more .
Im severly missing information on how many Cell processors this board will have - for 8000 US Dollars it has to be more than one lousy processor .
Why does it say "can speed up" - how about "will" ?
"The board can run YDL" - So ?
Are they suggesting it does .. possibly will or did they just want to remind that Linux is the only OS to run on Cell ?
Okay .. yes it does according to another link.
Actually the link behind "Mercury Computer Systems" IMO interesting.
IMO this is even more trouble for SGI as Mercury are invading exactly their market as far as I think - although a PC can not handle the huge data amounts SGI machines can - but very much same market .
IMO
BTW anyone know if this can speed up games ?