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New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life)New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life)Posted Feb 29, 2008 15:07 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life) by beoba Parent article: New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life)
The Linux OS runs inside of a VM on the playstation. Unlike x86 the PPC platform is designed to be easy to virtualize so there is no performance penalty. But because the machine is PPC and the video chipset is Nvidia then, no there is no drivers from Nvidia for them. Nvidia's stuff is x86-only. However there is the Nouveau project and Gallium3D working on drivers for that stuff. 2D support should be there, but 3D stuff is very bleeding edge.
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New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations (Digital Life) Posted Mar 6, 2008 3:46 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link] The graphics situation is a bit more complicated than that. Besides the lack of drivers, there is no documented hypervisor interface for gaining access to the 3D hardware, and the methods that were discovered were considered security holes that have been closed by Sony in recent firmware updates.
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