On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:53:52PM +0200, Jeroen van der Burg wrote: > Those 8 cores have an own block of memory, it's now very big, IIRC it's > 256kB or 512kB or so, but that memory has a speed the same of the cpu, so no > need for cache.
Theoretically this should be _great_ for something like GIMPS -- especially the insanely fast SRAM on each of the SPEs would be great for the smaller FFT units. (The larger ones would probably be bandwidth limited again, though.) Now, here's the _big_ problem: According to rumor, the SRAM isn't really fast at all, at least on the PS3; look at http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32171 ... /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
