Getting Started with Cell Superscalar
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Introduction to the Cell Broadband Engine
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Need help optimizing your code for the Cell? The Barcelona SuperComputing Center labs are here to help;
their Cell Superscalar (CellSs) framework aids in exploiting parallelism of a sequential program.
Check out this article about how to install and get started using CellSs.
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The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) was developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba to provide
power-efficient and cost-effective high-performance processing for a wide range of applications,
including the most demanding consumer appliance: game consoles. Read to learn more about the Cell and its unique hardware
design.
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Open Computer Vision Library for your PS3
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Fixstars & BI Optimize CodecSys for Cell
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Want to run open source Computer Vision libraries on your PLAYSTATION®3?
Read more about the "OpenCV on the Cell" project, brought to you by Fixstars and Sony.
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Fixstars and Broadcast International are working together to improve your video viewing experience. Fixstars is using their world-class Cell programming expertise
to optimize CodecSys, a video compression technology that can reduce bandwidth for video applications by 50%.
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The Beginning of the Cell-ebration
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IBM Cell Broadband Engine Resource Center
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The Hack-a-thons I and II were the beginning of the Cell- ebration. In the
winter of 2007 Terra Soft hosted a unique event in its recently completed HPC
facility where developers and researchers from across the U.S. assembled to
work first-hand with the new Sony PLAYSTATION3.
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Check out IBM's Cell Broadband Engine resource center: an invaluable collection of all things Cell. This is your go-to site for SDK downloads, documentation, and support, even a Cell/B.E. forum.
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The Yellow Dog Learns to Drive
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Black hole researcher uses PS3s, YDL
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Terra Soft Solutions lent an innovative hand to the Axion Racing team with the introduction of a PlayStation 3 running Yellow Dog Linux, an integral
component in the on-board, realtime image processing system. Axion's Jeep Grand Cherokee "Spirit" drives itself through simulated city traffic for the DARPA
autonomous vehicle challenge, November 3, 2007.
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Right now, a cluster of eight interlinked PS3s is busy solving a celestial mystery involving gravitational waves and what happens when a super-massive black
hole, about a million times the mass of our own sun, swallows up a star.
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MIT PS3 Cell Programming Guide
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Georgia Tech "Cellbuzz!" Optimized Libraries
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Students learned about the new Cell microprocessor, and designed and implemented projects to run directly on PS3 consoles running YDL.
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Cellbuzz is a collection of libraries optimized for the Cell/B.E., which cover a wide domain of application areas such as signal processing,
video / imaging, compression / decompression, and data encryption / decryption.
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IBM Cell Ray Trace Demo
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The PS3 as a PVR
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IBMers have developed "iRT", an interactive ray tracer running YDL on IBM Cell blades with a PS3 as the head node. It demos a car model 75x more complex
than those used in today's games.
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Turn your PS3 into a full-blown Personal Video Recorder. All you need is Yellow Dog Linux, MythTV, a USB enabled TV tuner, and a few configurations.
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