FORTH on Cell/PS-3

Does a FORTH, commercial or free, exist for the
Cell processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3
game console?

I have been unable to locate anything significant
- "forth" is not the best keyword.

We have installed Linux on one PS3 and the IBM SDK
allows programs written in C to run in parallel on
most of the 8 SPUs. Each SPU has "only" 256 KB for
program and data. So FORTH's compactness should be
a good fit.

A feasibilty project would be to make predictions
for lunar occultations with a FORTH program
running in parallel on all available SPUs, e.g.
for simplicity 1 day or 1 month worth of
predictions for each SPU at a time. Perhaps even
with a web-interface for use by the public.

Cell processor:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor>


Regards,
Peter Mortensen
Software Engineer, M.Sc.E.E.
Bioinformatics Application developer
University of Southern Denmark

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:47:03 -0700, Peter Mortensen wrote
(in article
<0ebf31ce-bdef-4d48-9025-38571bfa9db6@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>):

A Forth written for the G5 should run on Cell shouldn't it? Adding the
extensions to use that math crunchers might no be that hard.

Mops (Mike's own programming system) is free and comes with source for
compiling in a G4/G5 Macintosh. Mops uses the Yerk/Neon OO model and is very
cool. Mike doesn't really support it anymore since he has no desire to rework
it for the Intel Core2.

I would not be surprised if Apple brings out a server or desktop with a fist
full of Cell processors. The company is full of G5 types and they just bought
a Fab that used to make G5 processors. I asked a rather high up friend about
it and he uncharacteristically hemmed and hawed and didn't answer.

Play stations are probably the cheapest source. Three in each aren't there?
And they network with other PS3's?

How much does IBM charge for their Cell Blade?

-- Charlie Springer