Re: [Rd] Cell or PS3 Port

2007-11-02 Thread Ed Knutson
The main core of the Cell (the PPE) uses IBM's version of hyperthreading to expose two logical, main CPU's to the OS, so code that is "simply" multi-threaded should still see an advantage. In addition, IBM provides an SDK which includes workflow management as well as libraries to support commo

[Rd] Cell or PS3 Port

2007-10-27 Thread Ed Knutson
Hello, I am interested in optimizing some of R's vector math functions to utilize the SPE units of the Cell processor (commonly found in the Playstation 3) and I am wondering if anyone has already done any work in that area. I can't find anything using the search page or Google. (Admittedly i