Re: [Chicken-users] anyone have a Playstation 3 ?

[Shawn Rutledge]

Yeah that sounds like some yummy hardware to hack on.  But Chicken
doesn't have native threads right, so not much point in having all
those cores unless you use multiple processes with some IPC method...
or if it provides the impetus to work on the problems that are
blocking us from having native threads...   I sure wish that was
possible because everything is going multi-core.

As a console it seems to be bombing so far; they are already going for
less than retail on ebay, and Christmas isn't even here yet.  With any
luck, after Christmas they will just keep getting cheaper.

On 12/19/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm thinking of porting Chicken to the IBM Cell architecture.  Anyone
> gotten their hands on a Sony PlayStation3 yet?  Likely, I won't be able
> to afford one until sometime in March.  And if that's how it goes, I'll
> be terribly busy gathering signatures until early July, with no time to
> work on development stuff.  So I'm wondering if anyone on this list has
> been fortunate / aggressive enough to obtain a PS3 already.  The IBM
> Cell SDK has a simulator, and it should allow for cross compilation.
> I'd need someone with a PS3 to verify that the build actually
> cross-compiles.
>
> Alternately, if anyone has access to a IBM BladeCenter QS20
> http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/splash/qs20/
> or a Mercury Cell Accelerator Board
> http://mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=106&type=boards
> those could work.  But given the expense, I imagine those are longshots.