Hi,
In the past year I was working a lot with multisubject searchlight
permutation analysis which took several month. Now I am thinking about
buying a Playstation 3 and install Yellow Dog or Debian Linux. So this
is just for PyMVPA as I am not interested in gaming :)
The basic idea is, that a PS3 comes with this strong CPU and is
considerably cheap (260 EUR) at the moment (but also limited RAM of
256MB). The OpenCV project got some nice results with the Cell CPU (I
assume after a lot of tweaking):
http://www.fixstars.com/en/company/press/20071128.html
Does anyone have any experience with getting PyMVPA running on a PS3 or
Power PC architecture in general?
Here http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package=pymvpa it says:
"Package has a Recommends on python-psyco which cannot be satisfied on
powerpc"
so it might be somehow difficult to get PyMVPA running?
An alternative would be to buy a Direct X11/OpenCL compatible GPU and
work with Python::OpenCL
(http://python-opencl.next-touch.com/index.html). I think that Per is
working with CUDA. Are those results promising? Would it be an option to
support OpenCL in a upcoming major release of PyMVPA (would be my
favourite feature-request :-))?
Would be glad to hear what you think about the idea :)
Bests,
Matthias
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