This has probably been asked before, but cant
find any posts.

Does anyone know if Boinc will eventually make it
to the PS3? I know that now Linux has now
been disabled from being installed, we cant run
Boinc that way.

But has anyone at Boinc been in talks with Sony
themselves to see if they would help get Boinc running
on the PS3.

I know F@H is already bundled with the PS3, but with
Boinc, we have more choice on more projects to run.

Surely doing this is a positive for Sony?

Yup, removing "Install Other OS" feature was not good.

Perhaps now "George Hotz" aka "geohot" has found the
PS3's master key, someone may be able to sign the app
and get it to work?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12116051


Unless Sony's restraining order gets approved and then
they can pull all details and software that he has produced.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12171423


On a more legal note, I would have thought that we should at
least be given an choice of which projects we want to crunch
on the system. They could give an option on which one we would
like to install or offer them in the PlayStation Network for
download? Just a though =)

On a more legal note, I would have thought that we should at
least be given an choice of which projects we want to crunch
on the system. They could give an option on which one we would
like to install or offer them in the PlayStation Network for
download?

That's assuming all projects have a PS3 application. They don't. The only one I know of is the 3rd party apps for Seti, by people like Dotsch. And then that's the Linux PS3 apps (and client), which are now rendered useless due to Linux no longer being able to run on the PS3.

To be able to run a PS3 app, projects will have to port their science application to the PS3 OS code. Not easy, in all cases it'll take up manpower and money, two things projects hate to spend on things that may no longer work at the end of the week, because the hardware owner changed something.

Sony's pre-installing a WCG BOINC on all new desktop Vaio's . I haven't heard of any other negotiations for other platforms. Of course, if I would have, I may not be at liberty to tell you. ;-)

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Okay, I asked David about this, here's his answer.
David Anderson wrote:

A few years ago, engineers from Sony ported BOINC and S@h to PS3. However, that project was scrapped by the Sony lawyers, who don't like LGPL. Nothing since then.

PS3 is no longer that interested from a performance point of view; modern GPUs are 10-20x faster than the cell processor.

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Hi Ageless,

Thanks for asking the question.

It's a shame that it will never happen.
As I am sure that it would have been benificial
with all the PS3's out there giving additional
processing power to the various projects.