You can certainly get at the SPUs, which are definitely amazing hardware. I don't think the PS3 will be usable for Linux gaming anytime soon (unless someone ports Mesa to the SPUs), but I do think that it is already very usable for scientific programming and other number crunching. Even rendering, too, just not rendering to a display. Actually, I think that if someone modified the program in the right way, the PS3 would make an AWESOME asterisk box.I will be sad if we can not get at all the amazing hardware. I want to see what I can do for now. Basically, if you schedule it right, you can do four floating-point operation each clock cycle on each SPU. I'm starting a series on programming the SPUs in assembly language pretty soon, and you'll be able to see exactly what it's capable of. In fact, if anyone is willing to make helpful suggestions, I'd be willing to show them to a few people early on. Jon --
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