[FFmpeg-soc] SoC and Cell task

[Mike Melanson]

Luca Barbato wrote:
> Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>> Hi, we have added 2 Cell projects on the SoC page. Now is the question 
>> if this is something we wanna do ? I think this would be nice to have 
>> but I'm unsure that we would get any qualified students for this task. 
>> Any comments ?
> 
> Advertising it is already a good first step.
> 
> Students interested should either have some previous experience with 
> cell or with software partitioning problems (mapping different part of 
> your program on different cpus/domains). The tasks we picked are 
> relatively simple so we can take in account the difficulty of the 
> platform in the time/effort budget.

And how are students to develop these tasks? Actual PS3 if they have
one? Or will you provide SSH access to a Cell-based workstation? Or will
they use IBM's simulation environment?

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	-Mike Melanson