PlayStation tackles big questions
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| Hooked together in a single cluster, the PS3 consoles provide his department
| with the same amount of computing power as a 400-node supercomputer.
|
| [...]
|
| "Linux can turn any system into a general purpose computer but for it to do
| work for me I have to run my own code on it for astrophysics applications.
| The hard part of the job was to make sure my own calculations could run fast
| on the platform, which meant I had to optimise the written code so it could
| utilise the new features of the system.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/articles/playstation-tackles-big-questions/2008/02/26/1203788327976.html
Related:
Yellow Dog Linux Shipping With Yellow Dog PS3s
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| Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux is already a favourite with the type of people
| who like to mess around with their PS3. Now, it's been made available to
| people who aren't so keen to mess around with their PS3.
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http://kotaku.com/354771/yellow-dog-linux-shipping-with-ps3
PS3 + Linux + Firefox = Office 2.0 computing
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| Sony and a technology site are using a conference to show off a confluence of
| next-generation, monopoly-bypassing technology: a Sony Playstation 3
| videogame console running Linux and Firefox as a foundation for
| Web-based "Office 2.0" applications.
|
| IT|Redux, a site run by blogger and tech adviser Ismael Ghalimi, is showing
| off the system at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. IT|Redux is the
| show organizer.
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http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9772115-1.html
PS3 available pre-installed with Linux
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| TerraSoft is now taking direct pre-orders with no delivery
| time guarantees for a Sony PS3 pre-installed with Linux,
| priced at $650.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7863481537.html
PS3 gets back into black
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| Due to increased volumes and reduced costs, the PlayStation 3 console is at
| last returning a profit for Sony. The future is looking even brighter in the
| video game segment.
|
| All three gaming console manufacturers are now making profits on hardware.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16410/1063/
Sony CEO says sales going well, watching yen
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| "PS3 has now gone past XBox on the Christmas market. It's moving into its own
| as it gets into higher bandwidth ... PS3 is out of the woods and beginning to
| hold its own," he said. The PS3 initially trailed rivals, due to the Sony
| machine's high price and an initial scarcity of strong software titles. But
| PS3 demand has shown some signs of picking up since the company cut prices
| and launched a new version.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9584_22-6227678.html
Video Game Consoles 2007: Wii, PS3 and the Death of Microsoft's Xbox 360
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| ...In the 2006 holiday season, Microsoft shipped a blowout surge of
| units to stores just as Sony and Nintendo were struggling to launch
| their new consoles and suffering through the inventory and production
| problems common to any new rollout. This was no accident.
|
| [...]
|
| Nintendo simply couldn't stuff the channel because it couldn't make
| Wii units fast enough to even meet demand. Sony worked hard to stuff
| the channel, but also suffered some production problems. At the same
| time, the high initial price of the new PlayStation 3 helped
| accumulate channel inventory as many buyers were wary of throwing down
| $600 for an unproven new game console that was clearly going to fall
| in price.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/01/31/video-game-consoles-2007-wii-ps3-and-the-death-of-microsofts-xbox-360/#more-1531
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| It's weird that Mini and all the commenters here have failed to notice the
| mass exodus from the Xbox team in 2007. By my count, more than 15% of the
| product team (dev/PM/test) have left Microsoft for Apple, Sony, Google,
| Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, and various other companies (including several
| startups, local and in the Valley).
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http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/01/raikes-and-other-exits.html
PS3 Megabox Homebrew Project Is Linux For Commitment-Phobes
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| A modification of open source software Freevo, Megabox brings VOIP, P2P,
| Firefox, 3D Linux gaming, TV recording (not sure how on this one), and
| emulation—as well as plenty of other features. Essentially, it's Linux
| without the install, reskinned with a neat media center interface. The price
| is right (free) so we'll give this a try and tell you what we think.
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http://kotaku.com/346073/ps3-megabox-homebrew-project-is-linux-for-commitment+phobes
Is it games or Blu-Ray driving the PS3 resurgence?
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| Having over 9 million PS3’s sitting in the world’s living rooms gives Blu-Ray
| obvious penetration numbers to throw on the desk of Studio cigar chomping
| suits. It is easy to make a convincing argument that this, along with
| arguable movie sales themselves may have been the catalyst for Warner to jump
| ship to the Blu-Ray camp.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16156/1093/
PS3 production cost halved
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| While the Playstation 3 cost Sony somewhere around $800 a console to build
| when it was launched in November 2006, Sony has told Business Week that the
| PS3 now costs about $400 to produce - which is similar to the RRP of the new
| 40GB SKU.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/14/ps3-production-cost-halved
StreamMyGame launches Linux player ; Play PC games on your PS3
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| StreamMyGame.com announced today the release of its free Linux Player, an
| application that enables you to play any PC game via a PlayStation 3 running
| Linux.
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http://www.kdcstaffs.com/it/main_view.php?nNum=4721&page=&part=Real-Time
PS3 tops Wii in Japan for first time
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| Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii
| game console in Japan in November for the first time, raising the prospect
| that Sony might regain its dominance in the global videogame market.
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http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-30766820071130
PS3 overtakes Wii in Japan
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| Some 55,924 PS3s were purchased in the week ending 11 November, compared to
| 34,456 Wiis and just 5817 Xbox 360s. Clearly, the Halo 3 effect and
| Microsoft's price cut have done their work.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/japan_wii_ps3_sales/
Price cut boosts PlayStation 3 sales
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| U.S. sales of the PlayStation 3 more than doubled in the weeks after the
| company slashed the video game console's price $100 and launched a low-end
| model, Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer told The Associated Press Wednesday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_hi_te/sony_playstation_sales
Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
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| The interest in the PS3 really was for two main reasons," explains Khanna, an
| assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth who
| specializes in computational astrophysics. "One of those is that Sony did
| this remarkable thing of making the PS3 an open platform, so you can in fact
| run Linux on it and it doesn't control what you do."
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer
Linux petitioners want Sony to open up PS3's graphical innards
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| Access is blocked by the Hypervisor chip so there is no chance of
| getting around it without Sony's approval. And, naturally, Sony
| doesn't want geeks producing 3D games under Linux and undermining
| its investment. It flogs the console in order to make mountains of
| wonga on the highly-priced games folk play on it.
|
| [...]
|
| So now there's a a petition online asking Sony to open up the RSX.
| It's here.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39112
Linux 3D graphics access on PS3 found
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| A method has been found to reach Linux 3D Graphics on the PS3. A number of
| hackers have clubbed together to release a draft kernel module for this along
| with a relevant Xorg driver.
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http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=23190
The hunt for HV's FIFO/Push buffer...
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| With your separate module for GPU stuff (3D, Xorg, etc...) will we be able to
| use the kernel sources from Geoff's tree and simply get your kernel modules
| loaded in place of the fb device created by ps3fb.c and ps3fb.h ?
|
| Keeping in sync with Geoff's tree is something that would be beneficial for
| those also doing CELL development as it is the tree that gets a lot of work
| from IBM and SCE guys that is CELL related.
|
| [...]
|
| Glaurung, nice work. Busy error made FIFO hack for us :). I was sure that
| fifo setup is broken for the second context.
|
| Panajev2001a, I think that it is possibly to make totally independent kernel
| module. You will be able to install it without kernel recompilation.
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http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=8364&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=211
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