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Indigo on PS3???
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:03 am
by tannerw_2010
I was wondering if it would be possible to run indigo on a PS3 through linux??? Rendering times would be vastly improved with the PS3's 9 cores at over 3ghz each. This seems possible, but has anyone ever tried it or heard of it??
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:04 am
by suvakas
Hmm..interesting idea.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:25 am
by dougal2
do you want to tell him, or shall I ?
hint to tannerw_2010: try using the search function
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:24 am
by Kram1032
Thought, yes, tried, no - you'll see, why, after a forum search
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:35 am
by zsouthboy
God, Sony's marketing is fantastic.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:18 am
by PureSpider
zsouthboy wrote:God, Sony's marketing is fantastic.
+1... and "so true"
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:20 am
by WytRaven
The ps3 is not "x86" architecture. Linux (yellowdog) is compiled for the ps3 broadband engine architecture.
So in short indigo's source code would have to be 100% pure c/c++ and must only use linux libraries available for the ps3 platform so as to be compiled using the ps3 version of gcc. Now that said you would still only get use of the 2 cores belonging to the control processor in that case. To make use of the of the "special" cores would require indigo to be coded specifically to make use of them. Something tells me it ain't going to happen.
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:51 am
by Blazedremedy
Consoles for the loss.
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:51 am
by Blazedremedy
We just need intels larabee to launch
