IBM Cell SDK on PS3

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Hi!

My name is Jean-Francis Roy and I've got Gentoo up-and-running on a Sony
PS3.

I plan to use it to do scientific calculus using the libraries given on the
IBM Cell SDK, but I run into problems using them. My questions are:


- Is anybody providing ebuilds for them? I found a bug report about those
but it was close with a wontfix resolution. I emailed the originator of the
bug and he said he switched to another distribution that provided those
libraries.
- Have anybody got libraries like BLAS and LAPACK up-and-running with the
bindings to other languages? I succeded in binding BLAS to GSL (GNU
Scientific Library) but I get no chance with numpy (Python), multiplying big
matrices give me an error message from the ALF library, saying that
"alf_task_create" returned an error. I can't find out what is the problem...


Thanks a lot for you time!


Jean-Francis Roy
Laval University Grad Student

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<br>Hi!<br><br>My name is Jean-Francis Roy and I&#39;ve got Gentoo up-and-r=
unning on a Sony PS3.<br><br>I plan to use it to do scientific calculus usi=
ng the libraries given on the IBM Cell SDK, but I run into problems using t=
hem. My questions are:<br>

<br><br>- Is anybody providing ebuilds for them? I found a bug report about=
 those but it was close with a wontfix resolution. I emailed the originator=
 of the bug and he said he switched to another distribution that provided t=
hose libraries.<br>

- Have anybody got libraries like BLAS and LAPACK up-and-running with the b=
indings to other languages? I succeded in binding BLAS to GSL (GNU Scientif=
ic Library) but I get no chance with numpy (Python), multiplying big matric=
es give me an error message from the ALF library, saying that &quot;alf_tas=
k_create&quot; returned an error. I can&#39;t find out what is the problem.=
..<br>

<br><br>Thanks a lot for you time!<br><br><br>Jean-Francis Roy<br>Laval Uni=
versity Grad Student<br><br>

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