[Sussex] CELL architecture

[Christopher Stromblad]

I'll have to start one, a project based on CELL ;-) That should probably
be interesting enough for them hehe.

Thanks for the tip! ;-)

Chris

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:38 +0100, Andrew Guard wrote:
> 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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