Re: Roadrunner Supercomputer using 12,960 CELL Processors Hits 1

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:53:31 -0700, Neal wrote:

> Though the CELL may prove more useful, it still has some serious arch
> issues that a lot of people don't like. Programming the thing is not the
> easiest thing in the world to do (though parallel programming models for
> CMPs are somewhat of an open issue). It's nice that they will continue
> to push performance, but many GPUs will be well above 1TFLOPS SPFP by
> 2010..

How reasonable is it to complain about the ease of programming the CELL, 
and in the very next sentence, go on about GPUs?

-- 
Andrew