hoknamahn Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060807-newsletter.xml Gentoo/PowerPC CELL effort Gentoo is the first community Linux distribution to actively work on supporting the new CELL processor IBM has launched with Sony and Toshiba. This processor is used in the PlayStation 3, and in a number of other products. The CELL processor has a general purpose PowerPC core which runs at 3.2 GHz. It also has eight special purpose cores, which are basically cache-less processors that are great for processing streams and parallel work. The CELL is also called a 'broadband engine' and has a peak bandwidth of 204.8 GB/sec for intra-chip transfers (between cores, memory and I/O controllers). More information about the CELL can be found at IBM DeveloperWorks. Luca Barbato has made available a Gentoo ebuild for a CELL simulator. This IBM CELL SDK simulates a dual CELL machine (18 cores) on a PowerPC machine. He has also made a CELL optimized Gentoo (crossdev) toolchain and Gentoo system image for the CELL. You can find more information in Luca's overlay. Gentoo would be the first community distribution to support this new PowerPC processor. Gentoo/PowerPC is a bleeding edge PowerPC Linux distribution with a bright future. Continued efforts such as these will ensure that Gentoo is ready for tomorrow's processors, as well as improve its reputation as a world-class distribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 great news, thanks for link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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