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PS3 Realtime Mandelbrot Fractal Explorer

4 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2011/02/01 at 14:15

Categories: Demoscene Tags: cell, Demoscene, explorer, fractal, jailbreak, mandelbrot, playstation 3, processor, ps3, spu, zoomer

A Cluster with 1760 PlayStation 3 for the US Army

7 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/12/10 at 11:49

Categories: GPU Computing, Hardware, Industry News Tags: cluster, condor, PlayStation, ps3, supercomputer, us air force

Condor Cluster - 1760 PS3

PS3GRID: When Gaming Serves Science

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/10/27 at 14:05

Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: biomolecular simulation, geforce, NVIDIA, playstation 3, ps3, ps3grid

PS3GRID Project

RSX Reality Synthesizer, the PS3′s GPU

2 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/10/10 at 21:44

Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: CXD2982, gpu, PlayStation, ps3, Reality Synthesizer, rsx

Want to know to what looks like the graphics processor of a Sony PlayStation 3? Hardware Secrets has done the job for us. The PS3 is completely disassembled and here is the GPU:

PS3 GPU: RSX Reality Synthesizer - CXD2982

The heart of the Playstation 3 is made of two processors: the CPU (Cell Broadband Engine or CXD2989), and the GPU (RSX Reality Synthesizer or CXD2982).
RSX Reality Synthesizer has the following specifications:
- 550 MHz, 90nm process and 300+ million transistors
- 24 pixel processors
- 8 vertex processors
- 24 texturing units
- 8 ROPs
The PS3′s GPU is based on old NVIDIA G70 (GeForce 7) architecture…

Real Time Ray Tracing Demo of Rome Reborn

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/19 at 09:11

Categories: SFX and Animation Tags: Blade, BladeCenter, Cell/B.E., demo, IBM, interactive, iRT, PlayStation, PlayStation3, ps3, QS21, QS22, ray tracing, Raytracing, Rome Reborn, Siggraph 2008, virtual

Siggraph 2008 Demo of Rome Reborn model v1.1 running on the IBM QS21 Cell/B.E. Blades using iRT ray tracer.

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PS3 to adopt YouTube functionality

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/05/19 at 12:47

Categories: Video Games Tags: ps3, sony, video capture, youtube

Sony has confirmed that developers can now integrate YouTube functionality in upcoming or existing PlayStation 3 games.

Gamers will now be able to upload their in-game video captures to YouTube. We’re excited at the opportunity this presents and look forward to more and more games to be enhanced with YouTube.

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