[Sussex] CELL architecture

[Andrew Guard]

Christopher Stromblad wrote:
> Sounds awesome :-)
> 
> I want one now... but I guess have some reading to do first, need to get
> a better understanding of how the ABI/APIs work.
> 
> Would be pretty cool to work with games development ... might just have
> to try and change career ;-)
> 

Well game development is massive effort.  There are few things though
you should be aware of out game development.

1) Code is a mess, no it really it is a mess.  When people first start
they are surprised how messy it looks.
2) Very tight deadlines (Which can not be put back, ie game has to be
out before Xmas and will not change the date)
3) The business is very political motivated.  There is lot of Fan-boys
to a platform in this business.

What I would recommend is you join open source project, some of the
interactive business watch these projects to see if there any new good
talent they would like to join them.

Otherwise good luck, it the fun business.

> Chris
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 21:36 +0100, Andrew Guard wrote:
>> Christopher Stromblad wrote:
>>> If I could get my hands on a PS3, you bet I would. What's your
>>> experience with it? What sort of work have you done?
>>>
>> Personally Zero, let just say I know people who can bring home a PS3
>> Tool unit, this was during late 2005.  The cell is amazing on it own,
>> the processing power is wow.  What you can render in real time in
>> software only is amazing.  The GPU is just awesome, you will just be
>> amazed.
>>
>> >From a sound view point, get ready for idea of every item in theater
>> having it own sound on it own channel.
>>
>> The only way I can put PS3 is like this.  What would be like if the most
>> advance computer you have ever used is the Commodore 64 and then some
>> shows you Playstation 2.  It that sort leap.
>>
>> PS. It also is using open sourced API's.
>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 17:42 +0100, Andrew Guard wrote:
>>>>> Good evening,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sitting here and reading about the CELL architecture, and few things
>>>>> excite me these days, but CELL is definitely one of those things.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone been playing around with it at all? Perhaps downloaded the
>>>>> SDK by IBM? I'm just curious really... and I am seriously considering to
>>>>> download the SDK and having a wack at it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps it could be a topic of presentation sometime in the future?
>>>>>
>>>> It is realy cool, just play with Playstation 3!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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