| nontechie needs help [message #49] |
Sun, 01 January 2012 02:58  |
Schmitzer
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Registered: December 2011
Location: Conrad, IA
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Ok so I really want to put Linux on a brand new Slim. I want to be able to use all the cores of the cell processor! Can somebody point me to an easy to understand guide to do this? I have used Ubuntu before, so I probably will want to try this distro. And also I have been researching if anyone's figured out how to crack the GPU. What's the status on this? Thanks!!!
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| Re: nontechie needs help [message #713 is a reply to message #84] |
Fri, 02 March 2012 16:27  |
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iadnah
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Registered: July 2011
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Just want to point something out here: The PS3 is PPC architecture, so you have to use a Linux distro that is available for PPC. Ubuntu doesn't make a PPC version. However, Debian does, and Debian is what Ubuntu is based on. So, you might want to try Debian. Most Ubuntu documentation and ideas apply to it, so you would feel more or less at home with it. Also, I know for sure it works with OtherOS++.
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| Re: nontechie needs help [message #725 is a reply to message #713] |
Sat, 03 March 2012 01:36 |
KeyofBlueS
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Registered: December 2011
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iadnah wrote on Fri, 02 March 2012 10:27Just want to point something out here: The PS3 is PPC architecture, so you have to use a Linux distro that is available for PPC. Ubuntu doesn't make a PPC version. However, Debian does, and Debian is what Ubuntu is based on. So, you might want to try Debian. Most Ubuntu documentation and ideas apply to it, so you would feel more or less at home with it. Also, I know for sure it works with OtherOS++.
Well, actually it's not officially supported, but exists and is supported by the community.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC
However Ubuntu is heavy, it's not recommended for the PS3 system. I also recommend Debian minimal+lxde.
Usually I install a very very minimal debian system, and then:
apt-get install x-window-system abiword alsa blueman bum epdfview htop leafpad lightdm lxappearance lxde-core lxterminal midori mplayer ntp obconf sudo synaptic vlc wicd xarchiver xfce4-notifyd
I don't know if I forgot something, anyway... it's a pretty complete system.
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| Re: nontechie needs help [message #794 is a reply to message #714] |
Tue, 06 March 2012 15:46 |
masterzorag
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Registered: August 2011
Location: maiworld
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glevand wrote on Fri, 02 March 2012 17:45Schmitzer wrote on Sun, 01 January 2012 01:58I want to be able to use all the cores of the cell processor!to
Cell CPU has ONLY one core with 2 threads. SPUs are just peripheral devices.
. PPU has Altivec, something like SSE2 for i686,
one example implementation of SSE2 can be the libjpeg-turbo
. SPUs can be like 100mt-runners, to exploit power processing you can take a look at khronos for OpenCL specs
I'm doing pairwise master keys with OpenCL on Cell, you should know the pyrit project at googlecode... after rewritting the code it runs faster than all CPU listed there!
I've also read publications (of 2009) of how the Cell can transcode via OpenCl hd video in real time, was people of some uni in miami...
the only way is via OpenCL, and targeting software.
btw we should consider the Cell as a server processor, non as a linux-gaming super computer...
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