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

[Bas Westerbaan]

I think that the gaming platforms is all about hype. That they use the 
capability of floating point calculation as the power of the platform is an 
example of the supervisialness of the whole marketing campaign.

A good while after they are released there should be decent tests, which 
will show exactly which of the platforms is best (for a purpose).

Even though linux will run on the PS3 I wonder whether it will be very 
customizable. And I also wonder whether Microsoft will ever be able to stop 
people from cracking their protections. It may be harder and take more time, 
but if their marketing campaign is right they provide one of the cheapest 
amount of processing power per dollar.

Time will tell.

On 6/24/05, Peter De Jager <peterdj at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Harry Holt
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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