- Mar 7, 2008
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Well the new Zii processor from Creative is quite different from what was rumored and what i hoped for. But it is quite brilliant never the less. "Check out zii.com for an intro into what zii is.
That said each zii is suppose to have like 10Gflops and a blade rack with have 2 Tflops of processing power that means this is quite phenomenal.
If we compare it to the IBM Cell which has 1 teraflop of raw computing power but is not as flexible as the zii this is also true for the 1 teraflop AMD "ATi" Rv770 architecture. The AMD GPU tech is not that scalable and the IBM Cell is scalable but not that efficient because of the SoC.
You know the real kicker Zii has split personality and thus can become say a video processor from a sound processor and vice verse that means no more use of an energy eating extra video chip in the Zen all we need are some more PE's....
But i was thinking MIPS processor should be used instead of the ARM.
That said each zii is suppose to have like 10Gflops and a blade rack with have 2 Tflops of processing power that means this is quite phenomenal.
If we compare it to the IBM Cell which has 1 teraflop of raw computing power but is not as flexible as the zii this is also true for the 1 teraflop AMD "ATi" Rv770 architecture. The AMD GPU tech is not that scalable and the IBM Cell is scalable but not that efficient because of the SoC.
You know the real kicker Zii has split personality and thus can become say a video processor from a sound processor and vice verse that means no more use of an energy eating extra video chip in the Zen all we need are some more PE's....
But i was thinking MIPS processor should be used instead of the ARM.