Author: Abraham ArevaloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Application software
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Programming the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture
Author: Abraham ArevaloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Application software
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Practical Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine
Author: Sandeep KorannePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441903089
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Practical Programming in the Cell Broadband Engine offers a unique programming guide for the Cell Broadband Engine, demonstrating a large number of real-life programs to identify and solve problems in engineering, logic design, VLSI CAD, number-theory, graph-theory, computational geometry, image processing, and other subjects. Key features include: Numerous diagrams, mnemonics, tables, charts, code samples for making program development on the CBE as accessible as possible Comprehensive reading list for introductory material to the subject matter A website providing all source codes and sample-data for examples presented in this text.
Programming the Cell Processor
Author: Matthew ScarpinoPublisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0132712865
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 909
Book Description
Make the Most of IBM’s Breakthrough Cell Processor in Any Gaming, Graphics, or Scientific Application IBM’s Cell processor delivers truly stunning computational power: enough to satisfy even the most demanding gamers and graphics developers. That’s why Sony chose the Cell to drive its breakthrough PlayStation 3 and why Cell processors are at the heart of today’s most powerful supercomputers. But many developers have struggled to create high-performance Cell applications: the practical, coherent information they need simply hasn’t existed. Programming the Cell Processor solves that problem once and for all. Whether you’re a game developer, graphics programmer, or engineer, Matthew Scarpino shows you how to create applications that leverage all the Cell’s extraordinary power. Scarpino covers everything from the Cell’s advanced architecture to its powerful tools and libraries, presenting realistic code examples that help you gain an increasingly deep and intuitive understanding of Cell development. Scarpino illuminates each of the Cell’s most important technical innovations, introduces the commands needed to access its power, and walks you through the entire development process, including compiling, linking, debugging, and simulating code. He also offers start-to-finish case studies for three especially important Cell applications: games, graphics, and scientific computing. The Cell platform offers unprecedented potential, and this book will help you make the most of it.
Cell-NPE (Numerical Performance Evaluation): Programming the IBM Cell Broadband Engine -- A General Parallelization Strategy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This report results from a contract tasking HPCC-Space GmbH as follows: B. TECHNICAL PRPOPOSA/DESCRIPTION OF WORK Cell: A Revolutionary High Performance Computing Platform On 29 June 2005 [1], IBM has announced that is has partnered with Mercury Computer Systems, a maker of specialized computers. The Cell chip provides massive floating-point capability and scalability for a variety of applications. It is a general-purpose processor and provides a high cost performance ratio (GFlops/$). In brief, it has the capability, because of its networking features, to provide a supercomputer in a nutshell. This signals an important shift in the computing industry away from the traditional processor technology dominated by Intel. While in the past, the development of computing power has been driven by desktop applications; gaming, and other data-intensive applications are now driving the performance gains in computing. A basic Cell processor is expected to deliver clock speeds of 4 GHz per core and contains nine cores, so it has about 10 times the processing power of a standard desktop PC processor. The applications that need that level of performance are mainly in the area of engineering and scientific computing. So far pricing was not revealed, but it is believed that the Cell will cost about $30 in game consoles. The average PC processor today costs about $150 to $200. IBM has been developing the Cell in a joint venture with Sony and Toshiba since 2001. Manufacturing of the Cell started earlier this year at IBM's East Fishkill (N.Y.). The Cell processor is a radical new design. It incorporates a lot of additional number crunching and communications technology onto one chip that normally is spread among a set of chips. This produces a far more powerful package.
Design and Implementation of Tool-chain Framework to Support OpenMP Single Source Compilation on Cell Platform
Author: Yi JiangPublisher: ProQuest
ISBN: 9780549386957
Category : Compiling (Electronic computers)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The well-known performance and power bottlenecks in traditional architecture design, in conjunction with the sustained demand for high performance in real world applications, stimulated the creation of new designs that utilize multi-cores in one processor. There are two approaches in multi-core design: homogeneous and heterogeneous. The homogeneous design is based on the replication of simple cores. It is easier for developers to port existing applications to this kind of platform. However, great diversity exists among applications and a homogeneous multi-core chip cannot be optimal for heterogeneous workloads. Therefore, more and more multi-core designs tend to utilize heterogeneous cores and specialized accelerators. The Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) is a representative. Every Cell processor integrates one Power Processing Engine(PPE) core and eight Synergistic Processing Engines (SPE). A PPE core has a traditional memory and cache hierarchy and it accesses memory via caching mechanism. On the other hand, each SPE core only has 256K local storage and accesses its own local storage directly. All data exchange between the SPUs and shared system memory is via high-latency DMA operation. Therefore, this architecture presents great challenges to programmers who want to utilize parallelism: (1) Threads running on PPE are far different from the ones on SPEs, both in capability and ISAs. The users have to take care of programming threads in each ISA, as well as their cooperation and synchronization. (2) The SPE local storage is so limited that SPE code or data may have to be partitioned into overlay sections. Given the explicit memory hierarchy, it is necessary for the programmers to issue DMA instructions at the appropriate time and transfer them to or from system memory. (3) Shared data in SPE code also needs to be loaded from and stored to main memory. The Cell processor can guarantee the coherence for all DMA transactions. However, the user would have the responsibility to keep data coherence among SPE local storage. This thesis is inspired by the Open Opell project whose goal is to develop the GNU-Based OpenMP on the CBE platform and address the challenges mentioned above. Our solution involves the whole tool chain and a runtime system. The CBE programmer can take advantage of the convenience of this abstract share-memory programming model. Specifically, we design and implement single source compilation to attack the first challenge. Then the "ghost" mechanism, which invokes overlays and partition manager libraries, helps to deal with the second challenge. Lastly, we try to tackle the third challenge by the software cache library. In this thesis, we mainly focus on my work in the assembler and linker part of the Open Opell system, which addresses three specific problems: (1) Given a heterogeneous system like CBE, how to support single source compilation? (2) How to design a mechanism to automatically invoke code/data overlays and hide all details to the end-user? (3) How to make the solution and implementation robust and efficient? The main contributions of this thesis are: (1) We have completed the design of interfaces between different phases in toolchain to support single openMP source program compilation. (2) We have designed the "ghost" mechanism to invoke the overlays and hide the details about the overlay to high-level users. It will work with the partition manager run-time library to complete automatic code/data load if needed. (3) We have implemented the proposed design in our Open Opell system in a robust and efficient manner. We will focus on the assembler and linker implementation in this thesis. We have used a series of experiments with several non-trivial benchmarks to prove our claim.
Author: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Author: Peter J. StuckeyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540859586
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
This volume contains the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2008) held in Sydney, Australia, September 14–18, 2008. The conference was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2008) and the International Conference on Knowledge Representation and R- soning (KR 2008). Information about the conference can be found at the w- sitehttp://www. unimelb. edu. au/cp2008/. Held annually, the CP conference series is the premier international conference on constraint programming. The conference focuses on all aspects of computing with constraints. The CP conf- ence series is organized by the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP). Information about the conferences in the series can be found on the Web at http://www. cs. ualberta. ca/~ai/cp/. Information about ACP can be found athttp://www. a4cp. org/. CP 2008 included two calls for contributions: a call for research papers, - scribing novel contributions in the ?eld, and a call for application papers, - scribing applications of constraint technology. For the ?rst time authors could directly submit short papers for consideration by the committee. The research track received 84 long submissions and 21 short submissions and the application track received 15 long submissions. Each paper received at least three reviews, which the authors had the opportunity to see and to react to, before the papers and their reviews were discussed extensively by the members of the Program Committee.
A Practical Programming Model for the Multi-Core Era
Author: Barbara ChapmanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540693025
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2007, held in Beijing, China, in June 2007. The 14 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers address all topics related to OpenMP, such as OpenMP performance analysis and modeling, OpenMP performance and correctness tools and proposed OpenMP extensions, as well as applications in various domains, e.g., scientific computation, video games, computer graphics, multimedia, information retrieval, optimization, text processing, data mining, finance, signal and image processing, and numerical solvers.
Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2011
Author: Mladen BerekovicPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642191371
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2011, held in Lake Como, Italy, in February 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented in seven technical sessions were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on customization and application specific accelerators; multi/many-core architectures; adaptive system architectures; processor architectures; memory architectures optimization; organic and autonomic computing; network-on-chip architectures.
High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers
Author: Per StenströmPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540775609
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This highly relevant and up-to-the-minute book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, HiPEAC 2008, held in Göteborg, Sweden, January 27-29, 2008. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized into topical sections on a number of key subjects in the field.