[FFmpeg-soc] SoC and Cell task

[Sascha Sommer]

Hi,

On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Mike Melanson wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > I think all of them could be feasible, I already pinged IBM about (2)
> > since I do not own anything but a ps3 (that I'd dedicate for this task
> > if anything better doesn't come up).
>
> A student could be expected to:
>
> 1) develop on PS3 if available
> 2) develop on IBM's sim environment if no PS3 readily available
> 3) be granted shell access to a Cell machine (PS3 or real machine)
> further along in the summer based on progress
>
> Follow up on the IBM option. Otherwise, I'm sure we can come up with a
> PS3 somewhere.
>
> BTW, have you successfully installed and use the sim environment? I
> haven't, and it may be unreasonable to expect a student to get it to
> work if we can't.

I once tryed the cell simulator and it took about 30 minutes to boot the 
fedora image on a 1,7 ghz pentium-m notebook with 2 gb ram. Maybe I did 
something wrong but if it is really that slow I would not consider 2) as an 
option.

Regards

Sascha