Overview of programming the Cell Processor from the IBM research archive

JoelR|18 years ago|Dev

The Cell Broadband Processor is a hard to understandable enigma to programmers who have worked in the standard PC environment for a long time. With the hints from the following papers and the introduction of the IBM XL C/C++ compiler in 2007 it is now much easier to learn and program the Cell.

1st: Introduction to the XL C/C++ compiler for Linux and the Cell

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/3/897/ENUS207-253/index.html

2nd: Using advanced compiler technology to exploit the performance of the Cell Broadband Engine architecture

(that is to say read this for great hints (instruction buffering and branch hint commands))

http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/sj/451/eichenberger.html

3rd: A tutorial in several parts "compiling for the cell"

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/pa-dw-pa-cbecompile1-i.html

4th: The Cell Project

http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/cell/cell_programming.html

http://www.research.ibm.com/cell/publications.html

5th and final: CellSs: Making it easier to program the Cell Broadband Engine processor

http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/515/perez.html