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Acquiring Cell Multicore Programming Skills for a Software Developer

Audience

  • Interested in programming for the Cell
  • Planning to migrate existing programs to the Cell

Prerequisite Knowledge

  • C/C++ or Fortran language programming
  • Basic concepts of parallel programming
  • Program development procedure on Linux

Skills Development Roadmap

  • Fundamentals Cell Programming
    • Basics of Cell Architecture - learn about: (1) the unique features of the hardware as well as the multicore SIMD processing architecture on the Cell, (2) software model including the PPU- and SPU-centric model, and (3) software development toolchain used in Cell Software Development Toolkit SDK 3.0
    • Basics of SIMD Programming - focuses on SIMD operations which enable processing of multiple data with a single instruction
    • Basics of SPE Programming - learn how to write programs for SPEs and how to use multiple SPEs
  • Intermediate Cell Programming - learn how to use libraries, performance tools, and SPE programming techniques to improve code performance
  • Advanced Cell Programming - learn how to do code tuning and use programming framework for Cell and Hybrid environment
 

 
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