Interesting article on Dr Dobbs Journal about Multi-core & PS3's Cell. Enjoy...

http://www.ddj.com/199902753

"The fact that students—with no background in parallel programming or the Cell Broadband Engine—were able to get their projects done from scratch in just about one month largely goes to show the capability and determination of our students, coupled with the availability of a robust toolchain for Cell development," said MIT professor Saman Amarasinghe, who taught the class. That at least one student project involved (you guessed it) games is secondary, of course.

That's the new wave of developers that PS3 needs, not the ones that just port games without optimizing the use of hardware