PS3 emulation maybe possible Now with the cuda platform

[ericore]

Video cards are very similar to IBM's cell processor, aren't they? Rather than wait a decade for a CPU to be somewhat as capable, why doesn't someone try to make a ps3 emulator based on the CUDA platform. If anything, I think it would be a great success due to hardware resemblance; exponential folds better in comparison to any amd or intel cpu. Most consoles hardware are far inferior than current cpu technology; that's until you meet the cell processor. Because the other consoles have inferior hardware it makes all the sense that we would get them to run on the cpu. However, the cell presents the opposite scenario. Since the cell is superior than any processor on the market today, and that its closet rival is probably a graphics processor then it makes sense, no, to make an emulator to utilize the power of graphics cards intead of the cpu since graphics cards are the component the resemble the cell processor the most.

comments?

[FatTrucker]

Wouldn't work. emulation of modern systems is an incredibly complex task and not limited to emulating the host machines processor. You need to emulate every single chip and function on the machine, GPU's won't be able to emulate the cell processor as while they share certain architectural characteristics the two are entirely different in terms of function and the way the architecture is designed.

Pure processing grunt is what is needed for successful emulation and to even look at the PS3 you are talking about machines with cores in double figures, then you have to consider the viability of obtaining software that can run anywhere up to 50Gb, so until PC's have multi, multi, multi cored processors, and blu ray drives as standard then its not going to happen......at all.