Hi, On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Mike Melanson wrote: > Luca Barbato wrote: > > Mike Melanson wrote: > >> And how are students to develop these tasks? Actual PS3 if they have > >> one? Or will you provide SSH access to a Cell-based workstation? Or will > >> they use IBM's simulation environment? > > > > I think all of them could be feasible, I already pinged IBM about (2) > > since I do not own anything but a ps3 (that I'd dedicate for this task > > if anything better doesn't come up). > > A student could be expected to: > > 1) develop on PS3 if available > 2) develop on IBM's sim environment if no PS3 readily available > 3) be granted shell access to a Cell machine (PS3 or real machine) > further along in the summer based on progress > > Follow up on the IBM option. Otherwise, I'm sure we can come up with a > PS3 somewhere. > > BTW, have you successfully installed and use the sim environment? I > haven't, and it may be unreasonable to expect a student to get it to > work if we can't.
I once tryed the cell simulator and it took about 30 minutes to boot the fedora image on a 1,7 ghz pentium-m notebook with 2 gb ram. Maybe I did something wrong but if it is really that slow I would not consider 2) as an option. Regards Sascha _______________________________________________ FFmpeg-soc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-soc
