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

[Harry Holt]

This http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040512033325.html
may be a little more interesting to work with that the PS3.



On 6/24/05, Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Behalf Of Harry Holt
> > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 22:07
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> > Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3 
> > 
> > ---------- 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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