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The Concept   One of the developers , Sony, is promising a chip with 72 processors in their next generation gaming console - the Playstation 3. Eight of these will be Power PC microprocessors which will each control eight auxilary processors. The concept is to manage workloads by developing program software that enables the Power PC processors to divide complicated problems into smaller tasks and tap as many of the auxilary processors as necessary to proces them. As soon as each processor or group finishes a job, it will be redeployed to do another task. The clock speed is estimated at 512 32 bit floating arithmetic and 512 32 bit integer arithmetic per clock simultaneously - 1 Tera FLOPS.
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