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About this episode

Presenter: Jonathan Adamczewski Venue: Centenary Lecture Theatre When: Friday 1 May, 1PM Inside every good games console is an unusual processor that doesn't seem well-suited to general purpose computing. That doesn't stop people from installing Linux on it and attempting all sorts of seemlingly ill-advised projects. This presentation will include an overview of the PS3 hardware with particular emphasis on the features that make the console's Cell Broadband Engine processor particularly unusual and very fast, and will introduce some programming techniques for making good use of the architecture, demonstrated through the optimisation of a simple graphic renderer. Jonathan Adamczewski is a graduate research candidate at UTAS, and uses his PS3 purely for research purposes. Honest. His first ill-advised Linux installation was onto a Commodore Amiga 1200 from a large number of floppy disks sometime in 1997.

• Category

  Tech & Gadgets

• Release Date

  May 11, 2009

• Runtime

  43:05