CELL based PCI-e video accelerator

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Originally Posted by TechConnect

Announced last year, Toshiba's SpursEngine SE1000 stream processor has now begun being sampled and sent to potential customers. Based around the PlayStation 3-famed CPU, the Cell Broadband Engine, SE1000 features four Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores and is basically a co-processor that integrates a hardware codec for Full HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams.

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Processor:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/images/new..._SE1000_01.jpg

The card:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/images/new..._SE1000_02.jpg

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http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.p...=19117&catid=2

w00t this could boost Folding big time :D

I love CELL technology. it's the one and only spec I like about the PS3.

hmmm.....now what can we gamers use this card for??

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Originally Posted by GAR

hmmm.....now what can we gamers use this card for??

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AFAIK, based on the article... zero!

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Originally Posted by nullface

AFAIK, based on the article... zero!

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Not important. It only has to be capable of folding :D If it does I definitely buy one.

Isn't cell very suitable for physics calculations?

You can crunch while you game... for one... :p:

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Originally Posted by nullface

w00t this could boost Folding big time :D

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With appropriate drivers who knows… but then again for powerful Folding accelerator you can use latest ATi card with available Folding drivers

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Originally Posted by Nedjo

The card:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/images/new..._SE1000_02.jpg

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For their sake, I hope this is just a prototype card and not final.
From the number of components and traces, this could fit in half-height -
then it could be used in blades; with this over-full-height format, it will
only fit with risers or into towers.

The cell is one of the strongest chips for ray-tracing...

Perhaps they need alle the PCB real estate to place a humongous cooler?:D

anyone else notice that ti's PCI-e 1x

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Originally Posted by xlink

anyone else notice that ti's PCI-e 1x

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Pretty hard to miss:D

but yeah, looks interesting to say the least

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Originally Posted by Engadget

Toshiba just pushed its SpursEngine co-processor chip out the door for sampling. Derived from the Cell processor at the heart of Sony's PS3, the SpursEngine SE1000 contains 4 processor cores (not 8 like the Cell) and a hardware codec for encoding and decoding MPEG-2/H.264 video. It's designed to manhandle real-time graphics processing and video manipulation when used in a potent three-way with your computer's CPU and GPU. The processor is expected to cost as little as $50 by the time it appears in the first consumer electronics devices -- likely graphics cards -- early next year. A very good thing if the production experience is anything like the demonstrations we've seen.

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http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/08/t...r-for-testing/

If it folds and if multiplie cards can be used, im interested :D

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Originally Posted by ownage

Not important. It only has to be capable of folding :D If it does I definitely buy one.

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depending on price i would definetly be interested, makes me kinda mad my 8800gtx is sitting unused most of the time :shakes:

they cant even get folding working on modern graphics cards lol

PS3 emulator, step one :D

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Originally Posted by KoHaN69

PS3 emulator, step one :D

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step 2: ????

step 3: profit!

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Originally Posted by safan80

step 2: ????

step 3: profit!

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Gnomes!!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

H.264 encoder card? Sign me up!

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Originally Posted by Frodin

Perhaps they need alle the PCB real estate to place a humongous cooler?:D

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Another article says it's between 10 and 20W, so no :)

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Originally Posted by nullface

w00t this could boost Folding big time :D

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EXACTLY what I thought when I saw the card. If its cheap enough, It'll just be another tool to increase my damn PPD!

so this means that toshiba will also be releasing their cell based TVs and Lappys soon....boo-ya

Now this I can definitely see a use for :D (soon we'll have teraflop PCs :D )