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New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life)New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life)Posted Feb 29, 2008 19:11 UTC (Fri) by ClarkMills (subscriber, #11490)In reply to: New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life) by beoba Parent article: New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life)
Trivia: From what I have read, on the PS3 only 7 of the possible 8 cell processors are enabled. Of that, Linux uses one of the SPUs leaving 6 SPUs for you to use. There is, of course, also the power processor that Linux runs on.
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New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life) Posted Mar 6, 2008 3:48 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link] It's the hypervisor that reserves and uses one of the SPUs, not Linux. But you're correct, there are 6 SPUs available to use.
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