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

[Peter De Jager]

That's really good news. With these kinds of workstations being released I
think it's inevitable that Mono will be ported, which will mean that it will
also run on PS3. Thanks for the info. 

Pete.
 

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Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3

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-----
> > From: mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> > [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com ] On
> Behalf Of Harry Holt
> > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 22:07
> > To: Mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> > 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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