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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on May 24, 2005, 10:50:43 pm

Title: Cell to be Open Sourced
Post by: Kamikaze on May 24, 2005, 10:50:43 pm

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163106213

Since there have been an awful number of Xbox-centric threads I thought I'd make one about Sony. Apparently Sony, Toshiba and IBM are open sourcing the development software for the Cell (the chip that powers the Playstation 3) and are hoping open source development gets people interested in the Cell.

If I was optimistic I'd say that this could lead to interesting uses for the PS3, but because of Sony's DRM history that may be wishful thinking.

I'll be really interested to see the development tools because programming for 7 SPEs and a main CPU sounds pretty brain-mashing.

Title: Cell to be Open Sourced
Post by: Unknown Target on May 24, 2005, 11:36:56 pm

Great, mods for consoles. Ay yi yi!

Title: Cell to be Open Sourced
Post by: aldo_14 on May 25, 2005, 05:14:08 am

Makes sense; Sony want to create virtual 'farms' of Cell-based supercomputers and rent out distributed processing tasks across them, IIRC, the more they can encourage adoption the better.

Title: Cell to be Open Sourced
Post by: Nuke on May 25, 2005, 04:30:01 pm

fs2 ps3 port :D

Title: Cell to be Open Sourced
Post by: Setekh on May 25, 2005, 09:25:22 pm

Cool, open-ness with their code and their tools has always been a strength for Sony (particularly over and against Nintendo, which I think has suffered from a smaller band of strong franchises). I hope we see cool stuff come out of this.