Cool EDIT: Damn, the thing needs registration before a download. WTF What is with all these mega-tech-corps' registration crap?
Has anyone actually tried this? Does it have proper SPU support? It would be interesting to see what kind of performance you get compared to hand optimized spu shaders. I'm currently in the process of finding a screwdriver so I can upgrade my PS3 drive. Can't wait to give this a go.
I haven't upgraded my PS3 Linux for quite a while, so I am not sure whether this will run on my PS3 or not. If this works on PS3, it would be quite interesting, although I'm curious on how they implement the memory hierarchy. My previous experiences with programming the SPE is not very good though. OpenCL should be a much better experience if it's done well.
Yeah I'm really interested in giving this a go. To be honest I prefer the SPUs over OpenCL but that's mainly because I have this thing for the PS3 hardware. If OpenCL will evolve to a generic framework that works on cpu/gpu/ppu/spu that'd be pretty awesome.
There's also some at Apple (type open cl in the box to see them only). http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/navigation/index.html?section=Resource+Types&topic=Sample+Code
That's reasonable, as SPU are very different from the PPE. The OpenCL/opencl.h vs CL/cl.h is pretty annoying. Basically all OpenCL program which wants to be portable to Mac has to do this: Code: #ifdef __APPLE__ #include <OpenCL/opencl.h> #else #include <CL/cl.h> #endif It's done this way in cl.h provided by Khronos.
For people who want to try out OpenCL on the PS3, you should start here: http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12567 It contains custom instructions to make IBM's XLC compiler install on the PS3. There is a typo: 56. local ($cmpFixVer) = "0.1.0-0"; should be: 56. local ($cmpFixVer) = "0.1.1-0"; The rest should work fine. I'm fixing some stubborn Bluetooth keyboard issues. Should be able to run some OpenCL sample codes from Apple to compare in a few days time. ^_^
Im getting this error when i try to install those rpms from the iso on Ubuntu 9.10 ppc administrator@ubuntu:/home/images-ppc/rpms$ sudo alien -i *rpm --scripts error: incorrect format: unknown tag Package build failed. Here's the log: dh_testdir dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k -d dh_installdirs dh_installdocs dh_installchangelogs find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \ xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/opencl-cell-xlc-cmp dh_compress dh_makeshlibs dh_installdeb dh_shlibdeps dh_gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'powerpc' does not appear in package's architecture list (ppc64) dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol returned exit code 255 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 find: `opencl-cell-xlc-cmp-0.1.1': No such file or directory any way to fix?