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An introduction to compiling for the Cell Broadband Engine architecture, Part 1: A bird's-eye view

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Power Architecture editors (dwpower@us.ibm.com), developerWorks, IBM

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Summary: Meet the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) processor from a compiler-writer's perspective, and get a bird's-eye view of a number of the unique challenges it poses in this first tutorial of a five-part series. Part 1 provides useful background information relevant to the other tutorials in the series.

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Date: 07 Feb 2006
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This introduction to compiling for the Cell Broadband Engine tutorial series is based on a presentation by IBM Research originally given at PACT 2005.
The IBM Research Octopiler is neither your grandfather's compiler, nor your grandfather's Oldsmobile.
You will also be interested in "Unleashing the power of Cell Broadband Engine: A programming model approach" (developerWorks, 2005).
The Cell Broadband Engine documentation section of the IBM Semiconductor Solutions Technical Library lists specifications, user manuals, and articles of general interest -- including the SPU Instruction Set Architecture documentation.
Learn more about OpenMP: a portable, scalable, cross-platform model that gives shared-memory parallel programmers a simple and flexible interface for developing parallel applications.
The IBM developerWorks Cell Broadband Engine resource center is your destination for all things Cell BE.
Peruse the developerWorks Power Architecture technology zone archives.

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Get Cell BE-related downloads, including the IBM Full System Simulator, an evaluation copy of the Visual Age XL C compiler for Cell BE, and the Cell BE SDK from IBM alphaWorks.
Download a copy of the GCC compiler for Cell from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center.
Get custom: IBM Engineering & Technology Services can help you with Cell BE- and custom-processor based solutions.
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