PS3's vision is possible!

[Deepak]

SONY must contact these folks immediately.....

Pushing the Speed Limit: For Researchers, the Internet Just Got Faster

So can CELL achieve the impossible???

 

[London Geezer]

SONY must contact these folks immediately.....

Pushing the Speed Limit: For Researchers, the Internet Just Got Faster

So can CELL achieve the impossible???

interesting... wont be available to us mortals in years... MANY years... but it's reassuring thinking that ONE DAY we will something cole to that.... gosh, bandwidth like that is not even achieved in present consoles/PCs INTERNALLY.... :?

 

[Deepak]

remember the saying......

Necessity is the mother of all inventions....

So dont be surprised if we see it in PS3....

 

[London Geezer]

remember the saying......

Necessity is the mother of all inventions....

So dont be surprised if we see it in PS3....

Do u SERIOUSLY think this thing will be available TO ANYONE who is not a scientist of first order by the time PS3 comes out???
see u don't even have to be A scientist. u have to be THE scientist... do u understand that the scientists working with Particle Accelerators are the best scientists in the world?
it will only be available to them for quite a while...
still, i dont see how even i could use so much bandwidth for personal use... it is a bit overkill for people like us methinks.. or am i missing something?

 

[Deepak]

BTW how much bandwidth would PS3 require in order to create a worldwide network of inter-connected PS3s as they had initially visualised for??

 

[Deepak]

Do u SERIOUSLY think this thing will be available TO ANYONE who is not a scientist of first order by the time PS3 comes out???

If they rename CELL as Quantum Engine, then YES....

 

[London Geezer]

Do u SERIOUSLY think this thing will be available TO ANYONE who is not a scientist of first order by the time PS3 comes out???

If they rename CELL as Quantum Engine, then YES....

u joker

no, really, PS3 will be a console. that article has to do with different things. it's like another planet.

it's like saying that one day technology used in the Space Shuttle will be available to everyone in their cars.... well maybe the comparison is a bit off but u see what i mean...

 

[Deepak]

What I meant to say was that if a BIG company like SONY or MS is ready to spend *some money* ....this can become reality a lot sooner!!

 

[Gubbi]

9Gb/s fiber into your living room?

Cheers
Gubbi

 

[London Geezer]

9Gb/s fiber into your living room?

Cheers
Gubbi

let's all together...

 

[Geeforcer]

9Gb/s fiber into your living room?

Cheers
Gubbi

Yep - every PS3 will come bundled with 100 miles of 10-gague fiber, a switch, and a mail-in rebate for "on-the-backbone" hookup. In the related news, the console will be powered by Leprechaun-Engineâ„¢, harnessing the awesome power of the hungry leprechaun embedded into the case.

 

[MfA]

Sure you can improve on TCP/IP ... doesnt take a scientist, only an asshole (to use it over the internet that is). The less social the protocol the faster it is.

I dont see what the big deal about multi-path delivery is anyway ... AFAICS it is possible to roundrobin between multiple interfaces and ethernet destinations while sending data (different ethernet adresses, but the same IP ... requires a superset of standard TCP/IP to manage this, but no need to replace it).

 

[SMarth]

Exactly, TCP could be better, but this is mostly a matter of bandwidth, it's more relevant to hardware low-level protocol on which TCP/IP run.

 

[MfA]

I cant find any real technical data on FAST, but I am 99% certain that it is a protocol on the same level as TCP.

Creating a new low level protocol for production work is unlikely to be of use to them, any performance improvement would be eaten away by the inability to use COTS stuff.

Marco

PS. actually they did use ethernet, and FAST actually is a TCP variant.

 

[Panajev2001a]

interesting.. gotta do more research...

 

[fbg1]

Cool. I get the impression from reading the article that FAST is essentially a massively parallel TCP protocol.

Unlike the single path TCP protocol, FAST uses 10 parallel routes for its delivery, allowing researchers to send massive amounts of data while still keeping the size of each information packet down to current standards. During a data transfer, FAST monitors network congestion and rapidly adjusts the amount of information being sent to ensure a prompt delivery.

Maybe now there will be a use for all that excess fiber that Worldcom & Co. laid during the bubble.

 

[SMarth]

I wasn't talking about FAST, but just about bandwidth in general and hardware low-level protocol like ethernet, ATM, ect. which is what really matter as far as bandwidth is concerned, and not changing TCP (even if it could always be better ).

 

[MfA]

I dont see big problems with ethernet either, it doesnt have much in the way of mandatory QoS and reservation support ... but that is a good thing IMO, such things should be optional.

 

[SMarth]

Never said there was a problem with ethernet or ATM, just that sometime no existing protocols might be optimal for a particular method of data transmition. And that can just be as true for fast/slow, secure/insecure, reliable/unreliable medium. In that case it could be appropriate to design a new protocol for maximum efficiency.