PS3 Open Platform - some big news
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What connector is used to make use of those resolutions on a monitor? I thought HDMI was needed for highres output from PS3. Will an HDMI -> DVI connector work for Linux on a PC monitor? And will that not work for GameOS on the same monitor?
i think it does work, but only on HDCP compliant PC monitors.What connector is used to make use of those resolutions on a monitor? I thought HDMI was needed for highres output from PS3. Will an HDMI -> DVI connector work for Linux on a PC monitor? And will that not work for GameOS on the same monitor?
As you might have expected if you were keeping up with the news, Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 officially launched yesterday. I signed up for a ydl.net enhanced account in order to download the ISO, but I haven't been able to create my account there yet, and currently the site appears to be down.
But at least one person did manage to get their hands on it, and has posted some videos of the install process, and in the last video, some apps running on the system. In the last video he opens up a bunch of firefox windows as well as an instant messenger and some other stuff..it all seems nice and responsive, which would compare well against some of the reported experiences with Fedora.
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZAUfA0eUH0
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vBplJsUhnY
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrq2hPUooNk
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOWEi9G6-w
applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmruKxo9Pxc
But at least one person did manage to get their hands on it, and has posted some videos of the install process, and in the last video, some apps running on the system. In the last video he opens up a bunch of firefox windows as well as an instant messenger and some other stuff..it all seems nice and responsive, which would compare well against some of the reported experiences with Fedora.
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZAUfA0eUH0
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vBplJsUhnY
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrq2hPUooNk
installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOWEi9G6-w
applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmruKxo9Pxc
MasterDisaster
Regular
this is how it perform against a monocore Xeon at 3 GHz
Those scores don't look single core to me -- seems like a Quad core based on the "multi-threaded" results. And that's just a mean comparison.
PPE alone vs a (conroe based? Quad core?) Xeon? Meow!
Hell, PPE alone vs any recent x86 chip is going to be a sad fight. Not really unexpected scores though.
Same site, comparing Cell PPE to 1.6 MHz G5
http://www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/11/playstation-3-performance/
Setup
Results
Overall Score
PlayStation 3
105.2
Power Mac G5
106.9
Edit : This of course was posted eariler in the thread, but I think it's worth reiterating in light of rather dubious looking Xeon scores from the same site.
http://www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/11/playstation-3-performance/
Setup
- Playstation 3
- Cell Broadband Engine @ 3.2GHz
- 256 MB RAM
- Fedora Core 5
- Geekbench 2006 (Build 243)
- Power Mac G5
- PowerPC G5 @ 1.6GHz
- 1280 MB RAM
- Fedora Core 4
- Geekbench 2006 (Build 243)
Results
Overall Score
PlayStation 3
105.2
Power Mac G5
106.9
Edit : This of course was posted eariler in the thread, but I think it's worth reiterating in light of rather dubious looking Xeon scores from the same site.
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The listed CPU is Xeon 5160, which I think only goes up to Dual core, no? But going by some of the results, these are user-supplied figures without any validation of the setup, so it could be a quad-core setup reported incorrectly. It certainly seems unlikely that a mono core or dual core could get a 4x increase in performance from going multithreaded.
Apple only provide their Mac Pro's in Dual CPU forms, don't they? Besides the link shows that the setup was identified as having 4 processors (two on each Woodcrest CPU).
http://www.geekpatrol.ca/browse/2006/?view&id=10783
So...why did you post it? After having the PPE compared to an equivalent single-core processor, you thought you'd compare it to a 4 core architecture, using four cores of the Xeon, but only one of Cell's 7 available...? I don't see the sense in that. Why's it important to know that a 4 Core 3 GHz Xeon is that much faster then PPE?
So...why did you post it? After having the PPE compared to an equivalent single-core processor, you thought you'd compare it to a 4 core architecture, using four cores of the Xeon, but only one of Cell's 7 available...? I don't see the sense in that. Why's it important to know that a 4 Core 3 GHz Xeon is that much faster then PPE?
I don't think we'll ever understand the thought processes which go on inside Blackie{BA}/RedBlackDevil/Griffith/MasterDisaster...
Mintmaster
Veteran
As stupid as that was, at least we can see the single threaded scores. A single core of a 3GHz woodcrest is about 3x the speed of the PPE (except the erratic memory tests which are sort of meaningless for real world perf). That's not bad considering these aren't hand-tuned binaries, but it does show how much was sacrificed in making the PPE so small.So...why did you post it? After having the PPE compared to an equivalent single-core processor, you thought you'd compare it to a 4 core architecture, using four cores of the Xeon, but only one of Cell's 7 available...? I don't see the sense in that. Why's it important to know that a 4 Core 3 GHz Xeon is that much faster then PPE?
Undoubtedly a hand tuned mandelbrot benchmark would be insanely fast on CELL, and would probably reach within a hair of the peak theoretical FLOPs.
Mintmaster
Veteran
That was a rather convoluted way of making a statement :smile:
Are you saying the SPE will be very good at branching?
gokickrocks
Regular
the xeon 5160 is dual core, it shows up as 4 processors cause of hyperthreading (at least in a few windows apps)...dont know if it was the logical or the physical processor portion that was a typo but looking at apple's site it seems they only have dual cpu
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