We use it all the time here in the lab to run disk images and executables that are already built. We don't have a Linux/PPC cross-dev toolkit hosted on OSX though. So I am curious if there is really a demand for an OSX version of the simulator without a development environment on OSX ?
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The simulator is actually maintained on a number of different platforms within IBM.
Since the rest of the SDK team (xlc, cross-dev gcc, sample & libs, etc) chose Fedora Core 4 on x86 as a means of enabling the most number of people, we didn't want to confuse too many people by supplying the simulator on a variety of platforms for which the rest of the SDK is not supported.
This was somewhat of a big-bang release of quite a bit of software to enable exploration of Cell.
Now that we have this released and the open source side of the SDK is available on the web, I am sure people will have no problem adapting that build environment to be hosted on Linux/PPC.
In support of that, we will be providing a Linux/PPC version of the Cell simulator soon on alphaWorks.
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We use it all the time here in the lab to run disk images and executables that are already built. We don't have a Linux/PPC cross-dev toolkit hosted on OSX though. So I am curious if there is really a demand for an OSX version of the simulator without a development environment on OSX ?
The simulator is actually maintained on a number of different platforms within IBM. Since the rest of the SDK team (xlc, cross-dev gcc, sample & libs, etc) chose Fedora Core 4 on x86 as a means of enabling the most number of people, we didn't want to confuse too many people by supplying the simulator on a variety of platforms for which the rest of the SDK is not supported. This was somewhat of a big-bang release of quite a bit of software to enable exploration of Cell. Now that we have this released and the open source side of the SDK is available on the web, I am sure people will have no problem adapting that build environment to be hosted on Linux/PPC. In support of that, we will be providing a Linux/PPC version of the Cell simulator soon on alphaWorks.