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http://www.next-gen.biz/index.ph ... d=4779&Itemid=2
IBM Helps Devs Squeeze PS3 Power
By Kris Graft Print | Send to a friend | Email the editor
High Moon Studios (Darkwatch) tells Next-Gen that engineers from Cell processor collaborator IBM are helping the game developer harness the power of the PS3’s advanced brains.
A workshop being held this week at High Moon’s Carlsbad, Calif. offices brings together IBM engineers and game developers across multiple Vivendi Games studios, including High Moon, Radical Entertainment and Swordfish, to learn the ins and outs of the multi-core Cell.
Figuring out the PS3’s Cell processor and its multiple processing elements would be easier with the help of the people that actually created the chip, High Moon chief technical officer Clinton Keith told Next-Gen in a phone interview.
Keith said that IBM's expertise goes beyond what Sony's support can offer in regard to the Cell.
“We’ve been talking to Sony for almost two years now, but they didn’t create the Cell," Keith said. "They created the architecture for the PS3 and they’ve created a lot of the developer libraries. We’ve had access to those [Sony] engineers… but they’re not the hardware engineers. We want to hit [the Cell] on all fronts. We’re talking to the guys [IBM] who designed this chip and have been working on it for five years now.”
Sony, Toshiba and IBM collaborated on the creation of the PS3's Cell processor.
As part of the workshop, which wraps up this week, IBM’s chief engineers and Vivendi developers—spearheaded by Keith and High Moon—will be working together during hands-on programming and knowledge-sharing sessions as they tear into the PS3’s Cell. Participating programming teams will use software development kits from IBM’s Global Engineering Solutions labs, as the groups vie to create the best Cell-based game development algorithm.
Canadian multi-core processor experts at RapidMind are also participating in the Cell workshop.
High Moon, which employs 140 workers, is currently working on an unannounced PS3 project, as well as an Xbox 360 game, according to Keith.
Getting down to the nuts and bolts of Sony's new system seemed like the best way for High Moon to support the console, according to Keith. “We just felt that the PlayStation 3 was a pretty radical departure in terms of the architecture and I don’t think we were willing to write off this market share.”
Next-Gen will have more from Keith regarding the complexities of PS3 development in the coming days.
高月亮工作室(darkwatch)告诉在下根细胞处理器合作者,由IBM公司工程师协助游戏开发利用 权力的结业生的先进心机. 在本周举行的一次研讨会,月亮高度的卡尔斯巴德, IBM公司的工程师和邮局Calif汇集各地游戏开发商多芳迪游戏工作室,包括高月亮 箭鱼激进娱乐、学习本末的多核细胞. 摸清职的细胞处理机及其加工多种元素会弄人的帮助 其实,晶片制造高月亮柯林顿首席技术主任基思告诉在下根在电话访谈. 基思说,IBM的知识超越了索尼的支持就可以提供细胞. "我们谈了近两年来索尼现在 但他们没有创造细胞,"基思说," 他们创造的结业生,为建筑创造了不少功劳 图书馆的发展. 我们双方都获得这些[索尼]工程师::但他们不是硬件工程师. 我们想击中[电池]各条战线. 我们所说的那些家伙[机器]此芯片设计工作,并已为5年. " 索尼、东芝和IBM的合作创造了结业的细胞处理器. 作为此次研讨会,其中在本周结束, IBM公司的首席工程师及维芳迪地产-基思车队由高满期间将一起动手编程和知识交流会 他们催泪入职的细胞. 参加队伍将使用编程软件开发套件由IBM的全球解决工程实验室、 由于电池组角逐,创造最佳的游戏开发算法. 加拿大多核处理器rapidmind专家也参加了研讨会细胞. 高月亮,雇有140名工人正突击结业项目 以及xbox360游戏据基思. 越到犯案索尼的新制度像是最好以高月亮 支持控制台,据基思. "我们只是觉得是一个漂亮的PlayStation3改按建筑我不 相信我们愿意注销这个市场份额. "在下根会有更多来自基思就复杂 结业生在未来几天的发展.
大家都知道，Cell处理器的存在让PS3的性能给我们留下了很大的想象空间。但大家也知道，Cell复杂的架构让游戏开发者叫苦不迭。索尼游戏开发的全球总管Phil Harrison曾说过目前的游戏都没有用到过Cell一半的能量，未来也不可能有人能用到100%。
为了解决这个问题，索尼在不断更新他们的软件开发平台，但游戏开发者显然需要Cell更底层的细节。外电报道，Cell的开发者之一IBM已经派出了工程师伸出援手。在加州的High Moon游戏工作室内，IBM工程师正和几家Vivendi游戏棋下的工作室（包括High Moon，Radical和Swordfish）举办一个类似学习班，来共同对付Cell这个“带刺的玫瑰”。
High Moon的首席技术官Clinton Keith称，IBM工程师的帮助远远超过了索尼所能做的，“我们向索尼要求了快两年了，但遗憾的是，Cell不是他们造出来的。他们开发了PS3的架构和开发平台，但他们都不是硬件工程师。我们希望了解Cell本身，因此才和这些IBM工程师坐到了一起。这些人在Cell上已经工作5年了。”在这个学习班里，各个开发团队将使用IBM全球工程解决方案实验室的开发工具来开发Cell游戏算法，然后共享学到的知识来帮助游戏编程。
之前，在Cell的三家合作开发者中，我们总是看到索尼站在前台。但从这件事中，无疑让人对Cell究竟出自谁手有了一个更加明了的解答。. |
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