OpenCLit PS3 Dev Tools - PS3 Cluster Computing

[tthousand]

The developers at gitbrew tweeted, that they have released OpenCL Installer Toolkit PS3 Dev Tools. This is for Cluster Computing with PS3 consoles.

gitbrew Tweets:
"OpenCLit PS3 Dev Tools Released - gititbit.ch/opncl #gitbrew=results, RT for support."

From Container Page for Project OpenCLit - Cluster Computing with the PS3

''Gitbrew did PS3.''

Documentation

Cell/Cell Broadband Engine
1998_IBM_H264.pdf
2011-GDC-PhyreEngine.pdf
CBEA_v1.02_11Oct2007_pub.pdf
CBE_Architecture_v102.pdf
CBE_LINUX_ABI_1.2.pdf
CBE_Public_Registers_v15.pdf
CBE_Secure_SDK_Guide_v3.0.pdf
CellBEBootprocess.pdf
CellBE_HIG_65nm_v1.01_8Jun2007.pdf
CellBE_HIG_90nm_v1.5_30Nov2007_pub.pdf
CellBE_Handbook_v1.12_3Apr09_pub.pdf
CellBE_PXCell_Handbook_v1.11_12May08_pub.pdf
CellBE_Registers_v1.51_18SEP2007.pdf
GLESTutorial07_Arnaud_Remi_PSGL.pdf
Guide_to_CellBE_Programming_Documentation_v10_e.pd f
SIMD_Library_Specification_for_CBEA_1.2.pdf
SIMD_Library_Specification_for_CBEA_v10.pdf
ISSCC-20.3-Cell_Mult.pdf
Language_Extensions_for_CBEA_2.6.pdf
Language_Extensions_for_CBEA_v23.pdf
CellBE-best-programming-20091211.pdf
Hardware_Overview_ACGI_09.pdf
pa-cbecompile1-pdf.pdf
pa-cellide-pdf.pdf
ISSCC-07.4-Cell_SPU.PDF
ISSCC-10.2-Cell_Design.PDF
ISSCC-26.7-Cell_SRAM.PDF
689.ppt
MARS
MARS-CELF-20090903.pdf
MARS-GATECH-2008.pdf
MARS-OLS-2008.pdf
MARS-SIGGRAPH-2008.pdf
LicAgree.pdf
LicInfo.pdf
PPC
PPC_Vers202_Book1_public.pdf
PPC_Vers202_Book2_public.pdf
PPC_Vers202_Book3_public.pdf
pem_64bit_v3.0.2005jul15.pdf
vector_simd_pem_v_2.07c_26Oct2006_cell.pdf
cwg.pdf
SPU
SPU_ABI-Specification_1.9.pdf
SPU_ABI_v16.pdf
SPU_Assembly_Language_Specification_1.7.pdf
SPU_Assembly_Language_v14.pdf
SPU_ISA_v1.2_27Jan2007_pub.pdf
SPU_ISA_v12.pdf
SPUstall_app_V1.0_26Feb2007.pdf
SPUstall_app_v10.pdf

Unsorted
the_guts_of_ps3.pdf
Hardware_Overview_ACGI_09.pdf

==Packages==

Releases
OpenCLit
MARS
CELL EMULATOR
CELLSDK

Compressed Packages
Note: CELLSDK has no compressed archive (redundancy)
OpenCL-06162011.tar.gz
MARS-06162011.tar.gz
CELL_EMULATOR-06162011.tar.gz
documentation-06122011.tar.gz


Source: PS3:OpenCLit - Wikibrew
Via: Twitter

[xPreatorianx]

Ok I'm gonna ask the obvious questions, how the **** did he obtain all this, and how can anyone in this scene use this unless we own 100+ PS3's?

[Mark Webber]

Not sure how much use I could get from this, but the name is a cracker

[urisma]

That title is quite humorous. Anyways, this is useful even for one PS3. If I'm understanding this correctly, it's an openCL implementation to run on the SPUs. Basically anything that uses openCL should be as easy to port as a simple recompile. Or at least it should be that way, I think. I'm assuming it includes drivers for mutliple PS3 units as well.

Anyway, I'm a little confused. This isn't a true release of something new. I think all of this has been released over the past few years. The really interesting part of this, the openCLit package, has been available on IBM's site for a few months. The info seems to be mostly official documentation. Am I missing something?

EDIT: actually the MARS package might be one of the highlights, though it's a year old

[afiser]

Ok I'm gonna ask the obvious questions, how the **** did he obtain all this, and how can anyone in this scene use this unless we own 100+ PS3's?

im fairly certain most (if not all) of the documentation was publicly released by IBM.

[topdev]

this image is from the milatary where they are using over 100 ps3 for satalitte and reconisence

The developers at gitbrew has released OpenCLit PS3 Dev Tools.

From Container Page for Project OpenCLit - Cluster Computing with the PS3


Source: PS3-OpenCLitPS3:OpenCLit - Wikibrew
Via: Twitter

[tthousand]

OpenCLit from gititbit.ch! You got to love it!

[Slynk]

Most of that is public documents. Also, it only takes someone with 2 ps3's to develop software with this and then release the app to the public for distributed computing tasks. They don't need to be side by side, take SETI or any other similar computing task. This could be used in a lot of cool ways, assuming a motivated dev picks this up.

[Vash_TS]

Openclit is an unfortunate name.

[RatAndDragon]

I'm not really getting how this is related specifically to cluster computing?

It's just OpenCL which is a language/SDK you can use to execute programs across CPU, GPU and other processors. This appears to be the OpenCL SDK stuff for utilising cell with OpenCL.

I don't think it's necessarily *bad* for cluster computing, but unless I'm missing something then OpenCL itself isn't enough for that. It's not a message passing interface or anything like that....
It's a neat technology, I've been writing a fractal generator that uses my GPU to draw fractals on to OpenGL textures, and having it available for Cell is pretty cool.

Or it would be if I hadn't got my PUPs mixed up and installed 3.60 the other day