Comments on: COTS Is the Name of the Game for Defense HPC Market http://www.marketresearchmedia.com/2010/01/11/cots-is-the-name-of-the-game-for-defense-hpc-market/ Premium Market Analysis Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:02:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Gaming the Military? » Ron Van Holst's Blog http://www.marketresearchmedia.com/2010/01/11/cots-is-the-name-of-the-game-for-defense-hpc-market/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Gaming the Military? » Ron Van Holst's Blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:25 +0000 http://www.marketresearchmedia.com/?p=394#comment-429 [...] is an impressive chart on the projected grow for computational requirements in the US military.  It looks like about an [...] [...] is an impressive chart on the projected grow for computational requirements in the US military.  It looks like about an [...]

]]> By: Ron Van Holst http://www.marketresearchmedia.com/2010/01/11/cots-is-the-name-of-the-game-for-defense-hpc-market/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Ron Van Holst Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:35:16 +0000 http://www.marketresearchmedia.com/?p=394#comment-428 The acceleration in demand for computation in the military is impressive, it looks like about an order of magnitude in the next three years, so definitely ahead of the Moore's law curve. Given the price performance argument made for the cell processor in the PS3, the large size of the games market, and the potential for the PS3 to be a home media server, it's very curious that IBM has dropped future development of the cell processor. The acceleration in demand for computation in the military is impressive, it looks like about an order of magnitude in the next three years, so definitely ahead of the Moore’s law curve.

Given the price performance argument made for the cell processor in the PS3, the large size of the games market, and the potential for the PS3 to be a home media server, it’s very curious that IBM has dropped future development of the cell processor.

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