From: Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com>
To: "Xavier Leroy" <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: "Richard Jones" <rich@annexia.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on ppc64 (Linux)?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:29:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <666572260710241229r3b9c63cdjf78fbd710d5664a1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471F9006.8000905@inria.fr>
2007/10/24, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>:
Then someone told me that the Playstation 3 is a PPC64/Linux
> platform... I'm still not quite sure whether having OCaml on
> PPC64/Linux is worth the effort, even if we had the corresponding hardware.
PlayStation3's processor (the Cell) has some parenty with powerpc but
it mostly has differences (cell is a ppc6). It has many cores and in
fact a variable number of more-or-less specialized cores.
It's a sort of revolution because its SMP capabilities are really
different from thos of a Core2Duo or of an Athlon64X2. I think there
is at least a theorical interest as it seems to perfectly fit
simultaneous processing (but maybe not so close).
There is of course wikipedia's article :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor
It shows Cell should make its way in super-computing.
But more striking are examples of cell's power and scalability (at
least apparent):
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/4837
http://www.rapidmind.net/case-studies.php
I don't know of any recent and proper independant benchmarks but when
I first read about it, Cell looked like a thing we should keep an eye
on.
---
Adrien Nader
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 16:52 Richard Jones
2007-10-24 18:33 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2007-10-24 19:29 ` Adrien [this message]
2007-10-24 21:13 ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-10-24 22:08 ` Christophe Raffalli
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