CBESW: Sequence Alignment on the Playstation 3

Solving Parity Games on the Playstation 3

Parity games are a type of game in which two players ’play’ on a directed graph. Solving parity games is equivalent to model checking for μ-calculus. Thus, parity game solvers can be used for model checking. This requires a lot of computational power. Many-core CPUs generally have much more computational power than other CPUs. The Playstation 3 contains an advanced, modern manycore CPU, the IBM...

Playing Parity Games on the Playstation 3

The Small Progress Measures parity game algorithm, developed by Marcin Jurdziński, is perfectly suitable for parallel execution. The current parallel algorithm is programmed for the x86 computer architecture. In this paper, a clustering approach is introduced, as well as a variation on the Small Progress Measures algorithm, to enable execution on the IBM Cell Broadband Architecture.

PlayStation 3 System Architecture

In this paper, we will discuss the System Architecture of Sony’s PayStation 3 (PS3). We will look at the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CEBA) and observe how the Power Processing Element (PPE) communicates with the Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). We will also look at the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) of the PS3 named the Reality Synthesizer (RSX). Next will look at how Extreme Da...

Forensic Analysis of a PlayStation 3 Console

The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a powerful gaming console that supports Internet-related activities, local file storage and the playing of Blu-ray movies. The PS3 also allows users to partition and install a secondary operating system on the hard drive. This “desktop-like” functionality along with the encryption of the primary hard drive containing the gaming software raises significant issues ...

Limitations of the PlayStation 3 for High Performance Cluster Computing