[CONSOLE WARS] next gen consoles

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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 17:47 schreef Gamedemon het volgende:
ik denk dat nintendo koppig gaat blijven wat online gamen betreft...en als ze doorgaan zoals ze nu doorgaan ze binnen 5 jaar failliet zijn...waarschijnlijk moeten ze het weer gaan hebben van nintendo's eigen franchise...dus zelda 15 mario 30 ect ect ect en daar komen er niet genoeg van uit per jaar...waarschijnlijk slechte third party support wat gewelddadige games betreft...dus geen GTA en dat soort spellen

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de grote winaar gaat microsoft worden..niemand dacht dat de xbox wat zou worden...ze hebben nu een enorm grote userbase opgebouwt en die gaan blind voor de xbox 2....met halo 3 als launch titel of een ninja gaiden 2 als launch titel is succes gegarandeert....
xbox live gaat nog beter worden...meer downloadable content...meer players support...

microsoft gaat de grote winnaar worden...met sony op de hielen en nintendo huppelt er achteraan

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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 18:09 schreef Steve-O het volgende:
je vergeet dat revolutionaire ps3 logo ?

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Playstation 3 Cell Architecture: The Future of Computer Technology

Upon reading the Cell Patent recently filed, I realized that the Cell Architecture is nothing like that which has come before. While I have been hearing for a few years now, quips about the Cell design and how "revolutionary" it was, until now, however I had never been privy to any concrete evidence of such a revolution..

The Cell Architecture is designed specifically around network communication. Every design concept that has gone into the Cell Architecture is done to facilitate communications amongst various Cells. Every aspect of the Cell Architecture including processing, data storage, data manipulation, and general resource sharing, are all available to every Cell using the same ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). It is this massive multimedia intercommunication that will be the heart of the next generation playstation, or PS3 for simplicity. This constitutes a paradigm shift from conventional computer architecture, whereby intercommunication is an afterthought and every device is architecturally different. The Cell Architecture represents not only the future of multimedia computer design but the future of computer technology as a whole.

Communication: the Heart of the Beast

As outlined in the opening, communication is the design philosophy behind the entire Cell Architecture. First, I am going to detail how different Cells interact with one another in general, barring media / encapsulation-protocol type (communication over TCP/IP and other media will be described later). The basic architecture is comprised of various Cells or PE (processing elements) which themselves are comprised of a processing unit (PU), a direct memory access controller (DMAC) and a multiple number of attached processing units (APUs). In a “preferred” embodiment (as the Patent outlined it), a PE comprises eight APUs.

The PU and the APUs interact with a shared dynamic random access memory (DRAM) preferably having a cross-bar architecture. The PU schedules and orchestrates the processing of data and applications by the APUs. The APUs perform this processing in a parallel and independent manner.

The DMAC controls accesses by the PU and the APUs to the data and applications stored in the shared DRAM. In accordance with this modular structure, the number of PUs employed by a device (PC, PS3, PDA, HDTV, HD-DVD, etc.) of the network is based upon the processing power required by that particular device. For example, a server may employ four PUs, a workstation may employ two PUs and a PDA may employ only one PU. The number of APUs of a PE assigned to processing a particular software cell (data and application to be processed) depends upon the complexity and magnitude of the programs and data within the cell.


A Logical Example PS3 Cell Network (Diag1)


Basically, there are a number various types of devices or member Cells contained within a network (diag1). This network is comprised of all types of media / protocols and is on a WAN scale. However, there are two important commons involved. First, all member Cells transmit Software Cells via IP which allow for these SoftCells (for short) to be routed on any network. The second common; all of the member cells have a similar Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) to facilitate a distributed programming model for transmitting data and applications over a network, and for processing data and applications among the network's members. This programming model employs software cells transmitted over the network for processing by any of the network's member cells. Each software cell has the same structure and can contain both; instructions and data. As a result of the high speed processing and transmission speed provided by this modular computer architecture, these cells can be rapidly processed.

How Intercommunication Can Assist Processing

Softcells each contain a Global Identification (GID) and information describing the amount of computing resources required for that particular softcell's processing. Additionally, these softcells contain a date/time stamp to help provide sequence data to the Cell systems. Since all computing resources have the same basic structure and employ the same ISA, the particular resource performing this processing can be located anywhere on the network, and dynamically assigned. Meaning that, if a particular member cell is busier than another, the requesting softcell will be routed to the least utilized cell or “best metric” cell for processing. Keep in mind that the best metric can be a multitude of variables including distance, delay, processing load, multiple of PU's, etc.

So concludes Part I, the network communication layer of the Cell Architecture. In subsequent articles I will detail the actual communication that takes place. Additionally, if time allows, I will squeeze in some thoughts about how this new design will affect multimedia computing.

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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 18:37 schreef -Xerxes- het volgende:

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[afbeelding] Dat is er wel [afbeelding]

Ik heb alleen weer eens ruzie met die klotesearch

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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 19:00 schreef Erwtensoep het volgende:
2005, 2007 what's the difference....