Hi,

[email protected] wrote:
>I have just tried this on my PS3 but during the running of the
>MacLucasFFTW program, `spu-top` or `ls /spu` doesn't show any
>activity.
>PPU on the other hand is 100% busy. Are we really using the SPUs here ?

# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
# /opt/cell/cellsdk -V
IBM Cell Broadband Engine SDK 3.1.0-0.0
# uname -a
Linux PS3 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.ppc64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:13:15 EDT 2009 ppc64 
ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
# ls /spu/
[r...@ps3 lucas]# time ./MacLucasFFTW 216091 &
[2] 25331
# ls /spu/
spethread-25332-269250568  spethread-25332-269254472  spethread-25332-269255304
spethread-25332-269254408  spethread-25332-269254888  spethread-25332-269255656
# 
spu-top: Context View
Cpu(s) load avg: 0.72, 0.46, 0.52
Spu(s) load avg: 0.48, 0.60, 1.59
Cpu(s):  0.2%us,  2.0%sys,  0.0%wait, 48.9%nice, 48.9%idle
Spu(s):100.0%us,  0.0%sys,  0.0%wait,  0.0%idle

   PID   TID USERNAME   S F  %SPU SPE     TIME BINARY
 25332 25338 root       U     0.2   0    3.322 MacLucasFFTW
 25332 25337 root       U     0.2   1    3.325 MacLucasFFTW
 25332 25336 root       U     0.2   2    3.328 MacLucasFFTW
 25332 25335 root       U     0.2   3    3.331 MacLucasFFTW
 25332 25334 root       U     0.2   4    3.334 MacLucasFFTW
 25332 25333 root       U     0.2   5    3.337 MacLucasFFTW

http://www.fftw.org/cell/index.html

To enable support for Cell in double precision:

   configure --enable-cell
   make
   make install

./configure make PPU only fftw.

 .. .  .   .    .     .       .         .          .           .
 Shoichiro Yamada [email protected]
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