Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:35:56PM +0200, Aadil Volkwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed the increased interest in running GnuRadio and the USRP with
> the PS3 as the computing platform.
> 
> My naive thought is that this is to explore the performance of the cell
> processor architecture.
> 
> Would someone be willing to offer me their thoughts on this choice and what
> are the pros and cons, from their experience?
> I apologise in advance if its a silly question.

Pros: 25 GFLOPs peak per SPE (PS3 has 6 usable SPEs)
Cons: different/low-level programming environment.

See any of the overview docs on the ibm.com site.

Eric