It Looks as if the PS3’s STI Cell processor has more than just gamers excited. The US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has showed that the Cell architecture had tremendous potential for scientific computations in terms of performance and power efficiency.
The Labs have been doing tests on the chip to see if it has any potential beyond shoot-em-ups and has come to the conclusion that it could be the next big thing for scientific computing.
Source: The Inquirer
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