Hey, I have no experience with Cell machines, but I know that the next PyMVPA release will have somewhat substantial performance improvements -- you might get your speed-up for free. Something like two months to go, though....
Michael On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:37:40PM +0100, Matthias Ekman wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-ExpPsy-PyMVPA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exppsy-pymvpa -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de _______________________________________________ Pkg-ExpPsy-PyMVPA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exppsy-pymvpa
