Re: [UUG/MLUG] Sony Emotion Chip running Linux (fwd)

[Bryan Venable <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The chip is real;  it's used in the PlayStation 2.  Looks like someone may
have managed to hack together a Linux system that runs well enough on it to
compile PoVray with optimizations and execute it.  If so, it would probably
be capable of producing the listed results, although it might not be as
effective for general-purpose use even assuming someone were to build a full
distribution for it.

http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/deals/9903/05/playstation/
http://www.playcenter.com/psxreviews/psx2/psx2pr2.htm

Bryan Venable
http://www.spif.com/

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Mike Miller wrote:

> Is it possible that the PoVmark was entered incorrectly and it really was
> supposed to be 296.00 instead of 2960.00?  If it is correct as presented
> in their table, it's really off the charts!
> 
> Is the price a "price per machine" or is it a "price per chip"?  If it's a
> price per machine, the Celeron 550 is selling for $60 (and I'll take a
> dozen of them!)
> 
> Mike
> 
> -- 
> Michael B. Miller
> University of Missouri--Columbia
> http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Mark Donnelly wrote:
> 
> > I got this on another list of mine; this seemed interesting enough to
> > repost...
> > 
> > --Mark
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > I was digging around and I came across something astonishing...
> > http://www.haveland.com/cgi-bin/getpovb.pl?search=Single%3A&submit=List+all+Single+Results
> > 
> > Take a look at the top score for Povbench.  Its a 300MHZ Sony Emotion Chip
> > running Linux 2.2.2 with their custom compiler.
> > 
> > Couple of things to think about...
> > 
> > 1. This could just be a hoax, if so, oh well.
> > 2. Sony has linux running on a 128bit processor with supposidly phenominal
> > floating point
> > 3. The price is really low (like $528) per machine.  Can we say "Cluster
> > from hell!?!"
> > 
> > Anyway, thought I would just send this your way.  I think its cool
> > 
> > Tim Keller
> > 
> > 
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