From reading around the place, I was wondering how good a PS3 would be at running online servers, for example COD4?
It has a multicore processor etc..and full linux capabilities, but how good would it be at running our servers for example?


Linux g33ks, and answer please!

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They've got precious little memory, and by precious little, i mean next to none (256Mb).

Otherwise, they'd be ideal surely?

i dunno how powerfull the main processors are - it might be great at gaming but thats all the support chips doing that.
also there would be no binarys for it so would be the real sticking point

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CPU: Cell Processor

* PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
* 1 VMX vector unit per core
* 512KB L2 cache
* 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
* 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
* 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* * 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU: RSX @550MHz

* 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
* Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
* Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Memory:

* 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
* 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth:

* Main RAM: 25.6GB/s
* VRAM: 22.4GB/s
* RSX: 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
* SB: 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

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Yeah, that's the specs, but what does that relate to real world as a linux based server?
Compared to say, what we have already?

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LINUX : If it was any good, they'd charge for it.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep just like my Grandad, not kicking and screaming like his passengers...

I have no idea.

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Cheers, and answer I finally understand


Still going to be installing linux on it though, just for a handy second pc plugged into the tv

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LINUX : If it was any good, they'd charge for it.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep just like my Grandad, not kicking and screaming like his passengers...

The Cell chip is good for scientific calculations (hallo Folding@home), so if you were trying to encrypt lots of stuff quickly it might be a handy appliance.

The main problem with linux on PS3 is that IIRC there isn't a wireless driver.....

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Just hope the game server code is multithreaded.

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Don't worry Sony, I'll just cancel my date of birth and get a new one.

@Beefy - Aye, get a nice molecule on that folding thing, does it in 8 hours on the PS3... whereas my dual core gave a 100 days i think

From what I hear, when it comes to number crunching, the cells are excellent.

However, whilst most of the posts made in the link to a forum from Slappy's post were crap, I found this link contained in the thread interesting

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4837

Really have to sift through the thread to find interesting or accurate information in the sea of speculation, fabrication - or outright talking out of asses. Some good stuff, but so much fanboy stuff it's annoying

me mate programs games on it and pc in machine code / c so ill get the low down off him

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