On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Ken Fuchs wrote: > The Cell processor with its central PPC core and eight Synergistic > Processing Units (SPU) is an interesting alternative to true multi-core > CPUs. Linux runs on the central PPC core and the central core controls > what the eight SPUs do. I found this... http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/07/0257221&tid=136&tid=137&tid=106 ...and it makes me think that Linux on the cell processor will be very effective for some uses, but those are probably a few years in the future. Think so? I'm also wondering how it will work for I/O intensive apps. It looks like it could be a killer number cruncher if only a little memory is needed, but if a lot of memory is needed, won't the Power core have to feed the SPUs and there will be a bottleneck? I think it would be amazing for some kinds of analyses, but for many of the big memory-intensive jobs I do it it will not be better than other architectures. Just guessing - what do others think? Mike