Einstein@Home on a PS3
Anonymous
16 Jan 2007 20:36:53 UTC
Topic 13523
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All: Gaurav is closely associated with the Einstein@Home developers and made the first AltiVec code we used on Einstein@Home. He has access to the source code.
Gaurav: Thanks for doing this. It would be nice if you could find out how to make use of the SPEs in general. But note that we will not use the code you are familiar with beyond S5RI, i.e. in S5R2, so work specific to this code (i.e. the "hot loop") might be wasted. After having [edit]S5R2[/edit] running I would be happy to spend some time with you porting the new code to the PS3.
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Einstein@Home on a PS3
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There will most likely be an E@H App for the PS3. Gaurav is already looking into this.
However with my hands full with other things I don't know how long this will take, it will definitely not be the first platform to be supported on S5R2. We're currently thinking about different ways to use the SPEs, one of them being basically to run an individual App on each of them and convince the BOINC Client that the PS3 has 7 CPUs...
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