Real time and Linux/PPC/Cell

[one]

A nice little interview with Paul E. McKenney, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-nl14-directions.html

and a bit of info about Xbox 360 PowerPC CPU

Of course, compare that to our PowerPC processor for Xbox which does 700 times as many floating-point operations per second as the four-core ARM does integer operations per second. It has only three cores instead of four, but it does use quite a bit more power. Still, 85 watts is well within range for a consumer device and not that long ago you couldn't buy a supercomputer that could do what PowerPC can now do, regardless of how much power you had available.

 

[Acert93]

That is a big jump from the Xenos GPU which is what, 25W? (or was it 35W)?

It will be interesting to see the final unit and how they handle heating and cooling. With a water block heat sink on the CPU and rumored passive* cooling on the GPU it will be interesting (* 2 case fans though blowing over the internal components).

I wonder what the final power requirements will be. 12x DVD, 512MB memory, GPU, CPU, south bridge and scaler chips, etc... Can we expect the 360 in the 200W range?

 

[gurgi]

There will be an extra add-on fan unit that will be required for cpu intensive games.


I kid, I kid! =P

 

[Acert93]

rotflol

That was good Gurgi!

Surprised they did not make the extra 256MB of memory an addon

Hmmm I wonder if the cost of the 256MB of memory came at the exclusion of the HDD in the base SKU?

 

[PC-Engine]

A nice little interview with Paul E. McKenney, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-nl14-directions.html

and a bit of info about Xbox 360 PowerPC CPU

I don't even know why he is comparing it to the ARM MPCore since the ARM chip is designed for mobile devices running at a couple hundred MHz and only consumes a couple of watts of power max for 4 cores. Also supercomputers have little use for single precision.