Cell Architecture Explained

Cell Architecture Explained

I'm always looking towards the future of computing along with my friends, and this is very interesting. Not that the ideas are new, but the application of them to personal computing is. The information explained here is basically all interpolated and extrapolated from the recent filing by Sony and some other companies of patents surrounding the Playstation 3. The article, writeup, or whatever you want to call it is fairly well written, though to me sounds not like a writer, but just a technology enthusiast. He gets the information across in a satisfactorily organized manner, though.

Basically it is about a CPU architecture that allows for sharing of computing power between "cells," more than one of which can be in the same device, but they do not have to be. Through whatever communication medium available, different devices can share computing power, like say a PDA, a home stereo, your PC or terminal device or whatever it will be, etc. Read the article for a better explanation. What I am getting at is that this fits what I imagine will be the ultimate future of computing, which will be that computing power will be available on demand from whatever devices are around at the time, or maybe even over the internet, or whatever there will be then. Basically even if you don't have a very expensive and powerful CPU, you will almost never run out of computing power. Rather than going out and getting an expensive personal computer, users will simply buy a terminal device suitable for them, whether it is a small portable device or a permanent workstation. The device itself will have its own "cells" which will be easily added or subtracted, but it will be much smaller and less expensive, because it will be designed to use the available distributed computing power.

End speculation, that's just what I think. The bottom line of the article, though, is that the capabilities of the PS3 will be so far beyond anything we can imagine, it will be incredible.