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IBM To Help Vivendi Program PS3

Programmers: having trouble wrapping your heads around CELL’s eight cores, seven of which are functional? IBM will come to your workplace and help you. Apparently they’re swinging by Vivendi this week to give their programmers some lessons in working with CELL: "Our focus is also on enabling the broader eco-system of game developers to fully […]

CellProgrammers: having trouble wrapping your heads around CELL's eight cores, seven of which are functional? IBM will come to your workplace and help you. Apparently they're swinging by Vivendi this week to give their programmers some lessons in working with CELL:

"Our focus is also on enabling the broader eco-system of game developers to fully utilize the power of the Cell Broadband
Engine. We hope this takes us to a plateau that has never been approached before." -- Hal Lasky, vice president of consumer, media and entertainment for IBM Global Engineering Solutions

Not sure how this internal meeting got out onto the 'tubes, but isn't this a little odd? That IBM has to go out and help people program for PlayStation 3?
IBM Offers Help To Get To the Heart of Cell [DevX, via Xbitlabs, via GameStooge, via Digg]