My understanding is that the PS3's scaling limitations are at least partially a result of it's digital output, HDMI. The Xbox has an analog scaler, but is introducing HDMI only going to cause it to be prone to the same kind of issues?
I'm guessing either you were in a Big Rig or a Mud Plugger (both kinda slowish), didn't use turbo at all (USE IT!!), or both. There are many times that it's an extremely fast game.
Of course we have no idea WHAT we are folding. We could be helping create the next superbug for all we know.
Heh. The client does tell you what protein you're looking at, if you care enough to investigate it. My understanding is that the most likely benefit to disease research would be finding how "bad folds" happen, which are responsible for things like Alzheimers.
I don't pretend to understand all of the science, but I assume the people at Stanford know what they're doing. The results page has some things that sound interesting
Coinciding with the EU and AU release was the new firmware, including the PS3 Folding@home client. This has caused the project to explode, with PS3's putting up more than 20x the performance of a Windows PC
"even with mod_perl"? as opposed to what? mod_perl is the most flexible web server technology available on *nix, balancing good performance with a good set of functionality (who can beat CPAN?) it's faster and more scalable than Tomcat, and PHP is simply a joke. about the only true downside is that it's a total memory hog.
Downloadable content is exactly how you can fix the people-have-varying-taste problem. Supply a fairly neutral set of content on the main disc, then sell add-on packs of songs for $5 as downloads. They can continue supplying them almost indefinitely for minimal cost, and people will eat it up. Sounds pretty win-win to me.
Some old slashdot post said it was illegal. Is there any truth to this?
That's not even remotely true. Some old Zonk (read: FUD) post referred to a patent application by Sony which could be construed to mean that they were thinking about implementing copy protection measures which would prevent re-sale and renting, but no such claim was ever made in actuality.
PS3 games can be played on any PS3, any number of times. They're even further in the "right direction" than I'd have guessed; you can download purchased games from your PSN account onto up to 5 different PS3s (presumably for re-download if you get a second or a replacement machine, but still...)
Unless things changed since the last RC, the "ps3 support" is incomplete and unusable at this point, and you still need to stick with the 2.6.16 kernel that YDL is shipping
Nice try, but they're already close to or over 2M now, and that's before the Euro/Aussie release. Also, the quality games are just going to start coming out around that time, so sales will pick up due to that as well.
PS3 equips industry standard USB EHCI host controller and its companion OHCI host controllers. Although most USB host controllers are PCI devices, PS3 USB host controller exists in the companion chip. The PCI probe routines of Linux are modified so that PS3 USB host controller can imitate PCI device. After initialization, all operational registers of USB host controllers are directly accessed by PPE, so no modification to original Linux USB host controller driver is needed. PS3 has internal high speed USB hub. The USB ports of PS3 front panel is connected to the hub, not to USB host controller directly. This PCI probe modification would be change later to get better device driver maintainer acceptance.
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My understanding is that the PS3's scaling limitations are at least partially a result of it's digital output, HDMI. The Xbox has an analog scaler, but is introducing HDMI only going to cause it to be prone to the same kind of issues?
Maybe the most free TVs given away ever? O_o
I'm guessing either you were in a Big Rig or a Mud Plugger (both kinda slowish), didn't use turbo at all (USE IT!!), or both. There are many times that it's an extremely fast game.
Of course we have no idea WHAT we are folding. We could be helping create the next superbug for all we know.
Heh. The client does tell you what protein you're looking at, if you care enough to investigate it. My understanding is that the most likely benefit to disease research would be finding how "bad folds" happen, which are responsible for things like Alzheimers.
I don't pretend to understand all of the science, but I assume the people at Stanford know what they're doing. The results page has some things that sound interesting
Gizmodo has more current numbers (which are also a little behind). Currently they're showing 346 TFLOPS for PS3s.
That's a pretty flawed conclusion. The client won't even run on most GPUs.
Coinciding with the EU and AU release was the new firmware, including the PS3 Folding@home client. This has caused the project to explode, with PS3's putting up more than 20x the performance of a Windows PC
I wouldn't buy it either. Just making the point :)
Can you find me a Blu-Ray player that's cheaper than a 20GB PS3?
yes
(even if only technically true, it's still true)
Don't forget to pick up Motorstorm. Most fun "next gen" game I've seen so far.
They're a business. If they see a dollar sign, they'll chase it.
"even with mod_perl"? as opposed to what? mod_perl is the most flexible web server technology available on *nix, balancing good performance with a good set of functionality (who can beat CPAN?) it's faster and more scalable than Tomcat, and PHP is simply a joke. about the only true downside is that it's a total memory hog.
perl CGI, however, is crap as you said
Downloadable content is exactly how you can fix the people-have-varying-taste problem. Supply a fairly neutral set of content on the main disc, then sell add-on packs of songs for $5 as downloads. They can continue supplying them almost indefinitely for minimal cost, and people will eat it up. Sounds pretty win-win to me.
Some old slashdot post said it was illegal. Is there any truth to this?
That's not even remotely true. Some old Zonk (read: FUD) post referred to a patent application by Sony which could be construed to mean that they were thinking about implementing copy protection measures which would prevent re-sale and renting, but no such claim was ever made in actuality.
PS3 games can be played on any PS3, any number of times. They're even further in the "right direction" than I'd have guessed; you can download purchased games from your PSN account onto up to 5 different PS3s (presumably for re-download if you get a second or a replacement machine, but still...)
Unless things changed since the last RC, the "ps3 support" is incomplete and unusable at this point, and you still need to stick with the 2.6.16 kernel that YDL is shipping
You're right, but the PS3 has probably already sold more than the entire lifetime of the 3DO. Somewhere, Trip Hawkins is crying.
Nice try, but they're already close to or over 2M now, and that's before the Euro/Aussie release. Also, the quality games are just going to start coming out around that time, so sales will pick up due to that as well.
I thought so too, but no.
/ LinuxKernelOverview.html
http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/cluster/ps3/doc
USB
PS3 equips industry standard USB EHCI host controller and its companion OHCI host controllers. Although most USB host controllers are PCI devices, PS3 USB host controller exists in the companion chip. The PCI probe routines of Linux are modified so that PS3 USB host controller can imitate PCI device. After initialization, all operational registers of USB host controllers are directly accessed by PPE, so no modification to original Linux USB host controller driver is needed. PS3 has internal high speed USB hub. The USB ports of PS3 front panel is connected to the hub, not to USB host controller directly. This PCI probe modification would be change later to get better device driver maintainer acceptance.
I think that the big penguins are for the main CPU (2 SMT units) and the little ones are for the SPEs
About the only thing Linux has "raw" access to (which could also be virtualized) are the USB ports.
Not even that. The USB bus appears to linux to be on top of a PCI bus, which the ps3 does not have.
tell them I hate them
Sure would be nice to get bitmap indexes one of these days
from the next-we-can-give-the-police-tanks dept.
Also known as the Frank Rizzo dept.
Actually, they're not
r y/pa-cell/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/libra