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Hi Jethro<br>
Actually no, it is not to be used with a GUI, just to get some basic
scripts (either based on image magick or greystoration) to munch on
numbers.<br>
Each frame is about 17 MB (super8mm scan). It may actually get bigger <span
class="moz-smiley-s11"><span> 8-) </span></span><br>
The RAM could be an issue. I need to see the reality of such a project,
but if it works.... wow ....<br>
<br>
Anyway thanks for the warning, a first step before getting myself into
troubles.<br>
Cheers<br>
E<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi there
Was wondering if anybody has ever used a Cell CPU on a PS3 / Yellow dog
and can say something about performances for repetitive image processing
(e.g. deconvolution on thousand of large frames).
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hi E,
I have setup a PS3 to run Yellow dog, but never done any image
processing on it.
What I really wanted to do was use Linux as a media player on the PS3,
capable of streaming content from the samba shares on my fileserver, but
I found that because sony hides a lot of the fancy graphics hardware
behind a hypervisor, video playback tended to be a bit unreliable and I
was having crashing before I got annoyed and just plugged a PC into the
TV instead.
Anyway, getting back to your question:
Be aware that unless your software is written specifically to use the
floating-point SPEs on the Cell processer, you won't be able to use the
6 cores, and will only be able to use the conventional 3.2Ghz PPE core
(which is effectively a PPC CPU).
IIRC, it also only has 256MB of RAM which may cause you issues,
depending on how large the images you processing are, and how the
processing software works.
I haven't done any proper performance tests, but it doesn't seem very
snappy when running the GUI, so I suspect that if you don't have
software specially written to use the SPEs, then you'd get better bang
for your buck on an x86 system.
regards,
jethro
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