New Cell-based blade, tools support Linux
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| The Multicore Plus SDK (software development kit) includes Terra Soft's
| Yellow Dog Linux and is designed to augment IBM's free Cell SDK. The SDK
| comprises optimized math libraries and a graphical IDE and debugger based on
| Eclipse, along with Mercury's Trace Analysis Tool and Library (TATL). Last
| year, Mercury ported the SDK to Sony's Playstation3.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2657190603.html
Windows cannot run on these.
Related:
IBM Unveils Second Cell-Based Blade For High-Performance Computing
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| IBM offers the Linux operating system on top of Cell to provide a more
| flexible development environment than competing products that use a
| semiconductor device called a field-programmable gate array, or FPGA. Such
| devices are programmed once for specific functions.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201803074
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 Real-time Ray-tracing
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| IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT) using three Sony Playstation3s (PS3)
| to render a model that is 75x more complex then those used in
| today's games.
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http://www.n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-33982.aspx
Sony Studies Commercial PlayStation 3 Supercomputing Grid
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| With an estimated 6 million PlayStation 3s sold, it's little wonder
| that pharmaceutical companies, medical startups, and other businesses
| would be hot to chat with Sony about building a supercomputing grid
| that they could tap into.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070412/tc_cmp/199000285
Kernel Comparison for Linux (2.6.18) verses Windows (2003 R2)
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| Architectures: Linux Windows
| PC x86 Y Y
| PC AMD64 Y Y
| PC IA-64 Y Y
| Alpha Y N
| PPC Y N
| PPC64 Y N
| SPARC32 Y N
| SPARC64 Y N
| ARM Y N
| HP PA-RISC Y N
| Moto 680x0 Y N
| MIPS Y N
| MIPS (DEC) Y N
| PowerPC Y N
| IBM S/390 Y N
| Cell Y N
| others Y N
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http://widefox.pbwiki.com/Kernel%20Comparison%20Linux%20vs%20Windows
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