The PS3 is a bit starved for memory - 512 megabytes, half seems to be for video, half for the main CPU.
I just got a PS3 and hope to do some exploration with Linux programming. My own personal supercomputer :D Terry McIntyre UNIX for hire software development / systems administration / security [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ---- From: Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 7:43:37 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing Darren, The 6 CPU's don't have to keep the tree - they only have to do useful work. You could run a simulation on each of them. The question is how much memory is available for the whole system to run Linux and general purpose software on? - Don On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:07 +0900, Darren Cook wrote: > >> Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud might be cheaper @ $0.10 per instance-hour > >> consumed. > > > > doesn't the 'amazing amazon elastic waistband' require you to write > > all of your code using windows-based hooks? that kind've turns me off. > > You may be confusing with "Amazon Simple Storage Service" (which I've > not studied). The compute cloud gives you a linux instance: > http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2006-10-01/ > > This is suited to go programs that can work on a cluster. > > The playstation multiprocessing looks very different: you get 1 general > purpose CPU and 6 specialized CPUs. Their key feature is they have 256K > of local memory - this is not cache, it is all the memory they can > access. Not useful for UCT designs (which seem memory-limited currently) > but fine for normal monte-carlo. > > It may also be ideal for running tactical search. In fact tactical > search is around 6/7ths of the CPU cycles in a traditional go program, > so a perfect fit? > > Darren > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
