[Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3

[Peter De Jager]

Well, I won't quite say "orders of magnitude". In floating point Xbox 360
provides (approx.) 1 teraflops while PS3 does 1.8. The cell processor does
have multiple cores, but so does the PPC in Xbox. They should both be
fantastic platforms but my pref would also be with PS3 ;-) and I don't see
MS enabling Linux on Xbox anyway.

Still, with Linux running on PS3, my question is whether Mono will run too.

Pete.

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From: Harry Holt <harryholt at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2005 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3
To: Bram Westerbaan <bram.westerbaan at gmail.com>


But I *do* want to use a PS3, because it will have *cell* processors, which
should bring cooperative computing to a whole new level.  You can send off
threads for processing to the SPUs for processing, and even utilize SPUs on
other networked processors for ad-hoc distributed processing.

I don't know what you mean about the Xbox2 being "just as fast".  The
PS3 should be orders of magnitude faster, given some careful consideration
to OS optimization.

... HH

On 6/24/05, Bram Westerbaan <bram.westerbaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/24/05, Peter De Jager <peterdj at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Is the Playstation 3 architecture (Power PC) similar enough to 
> > current Mac
> CPU's to allow Mono to run on PS3? With 2 teraflops (!) and sony 
> announcing support for Linux, it will be great to be able to run Mono 
> on a supercomputer :-)
> >
> > Are there any plans for Mono on PS3?
>
>  Hi,
>  I do not know how it should be done. But I do know you don't want to 
> use a
> PS3 when the Xbox 2 will have about the same speed but will run on 
> MSIL processors :|. I really hope there will be a linux .net one day.
>
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