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Insomniac R&D has a great handful of presentations on the crackheadedness of programming the Cell. One of the most annoying things that we ran into was that it
by angersock 11y ago
Insomniac R&D has a great handful of presentations on the crackheadedness of programming the Cell.
One of the most annoying things that we ran into was that it was basically impossible to buy a system to learn Cell programming on--you either had to somehow root a PS3 (which still didn't let you get all cores), or you had to buy something from Mercury Computer Systems (I think it was?) that was super expensive.
It was a niche embedded processor, and hobbled because they didn't make it easier to develop for. :(
- scott_s 11y agoMy lab at Virginia Tech had a cluster of 24 PS3s. The PS3 rack burned like a thousand suns.
- zurn 11y agoThis was before launch I guess? The consumer PS3 did support Linux in the early days, Sony still has a page about it: https://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html https://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html Then they decided to put a stop to it and just removed it in a software update... I heard speculation that it was about getting some preferential tax/customs treatment for it because it could pass for a "computer" then. WP article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS