If I were to put Linux on a PS3, could I install SMP Linux versions of Crafty or other chess engines? What kind of NPS should one expect from such a test?
Specs
PS3 CPU:
- Cell Processor
- PowerPC-base Core @ 3.2GHz
- 1 VMX vector unit per core
- 512KB L2 cache
- 7 x SPE @ 3.2GHz
- 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
- 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
- 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
- total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
PS3 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit):
- RSX @ 550MHz
- 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
- Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
- Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Bandwidth:
- Main RAM 25.6GB per second
- VRAM 22.4GB per second
- RSX 20GB per second (write) +15GB per second (read)
- SB< 2.5GB per second (write) + 2.5GB per second (read)
PS3 Sound:
- Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPC. All is cell based processing allow for unique sounds.
PS3 Memory:
- 256MB XDR Main RAM @ 3.2GHz
- 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @ 700MHz
Linux on a PS3
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Re: Linux on a PS3
My guess is the performance would be pretty bad. Floating point performance has no correlation with chess strength.
Peter
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