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Is it possible to create an application (not a game) on the PS3? I know that there are ways to install Linux and all that but I was hoping there's something which you can just download from the net and run. I'd want the app to run like a server/daemon and be able to access the network.
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In order to install US apps on your PS3 you will need an American PS3 account. The process is very simple: Go to http://us.playstation.com/psn/ Click Join PSN in the top right corner.
Cell is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, commonly abbreviated CBEA in full or Cell BE in part. The first major commercial application of Cell was in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, released in 2006.
The PS3 uses the Cell microprocessor, which is made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs).
The CELL processor has multiple cores, but every core has little bit different function. So the application requires design similar to using multiple GPUs. GPU programming itself isn't easy, even in the era of OpenCL, so multiplying complexity cannot make the development any easier.
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Interesting, but probably not what you're looking for:
Learn and Compete in Programming the PLAYSTATION®3 Cell Processor (source)
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The only way you can program for the PS3 is through Linux. You don't get access to the "real" SDK unless you can secure a contract with Sony, and you're making a AAA game.
Everyone else have to target Linux.
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