CentOS - Mar 2008 - CentOS 5.1 on PS3

Hi All,

Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3?  I would 
like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for 
it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if 
anyone had any experiences.

James A. Peltier wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3?  I would
> like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for
> it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if
> anyone had any experiences.
I have a 'something that looks like CentOS-5.1' with a 2.6.23 kernel on
a ps3. getting it on there is non-trivial, and the process needs working
on :/

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq

James A. Peltier wrote:
> 
> Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3?  I would 
> like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for 
> it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if 
> anyone had any experiences.
I installed recently Yellow Dog Linux 6 on the PS3. It's trivial to 
install, since Terra Soft is in the business of selling PS3 clusters 
with YDL pre-installed, so they take care to make it as easy as possible 
for the user.
It comes with the Cell SDK included, if you select the Development 
Packages group while doing the install. It has a non-trivial-sized 
community of users running YDL on PS3 (and other Cell- and PPC-based 
devices).

http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewforum.php?f=19

It is very compatible with FC6 or CentOS5 for PPC, to the point where 
you can actually enable PPC yum repositories for those distros in YDL6 
and it works fine. I forgot which one I enabled, I think it's either 
Fedora Extras or EPEL, and pulled packages via yum and had no issues.

I suspect YDL6 is actually a PPC rebuild of RH5, with some tweaks, but 
I'm not sure.

So yeah, I would normally use CentOS, but after comparing several 
distros for the PS3, YDL came up as the no-brainer choice.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/