Practical Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine

✍ Scribed by Sandeep Koranne (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 520
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Practical Programming on the Cell Broadband Engine

Sandeep Koranne

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. This book:

• Explores a wide variety of problems presenting the Cell Broadband Engine in a new, distinctive way.
• Presents a number of software programming projects which can be used by faculty for engaging students into the area of actual code development for practical high-performance computing.
• Provides professionals with the tools needed to analyze the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine in their application domain.

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-31
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Introduction....Pages 3-15
The Power Processing Element (PPE)....Pages 17-34
The Synergistic Processing Element....Pages 35-59
Element Interconnect Bus....Pages 61-66
Direct Memory Access (DMA)....Pages 67-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-74
Foundations for Program Development on CBE....Pages 75-92
The development environment....Pages 93-101
Hello World....Pages 103-131
An Overview of the SDK....Pages 133-143
Basic Algorithms....Pages 145-175
Graph Theory on the CBEA....Pages 177-221
Alternative methods for parallel programming on SPE....Pages 223-244
Computational Mathematics on the CBEA....Pages 245-285
Vector Graphics on SPU....Pages 287-299
Optimizing SPU Programs....Pages 301-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-310
Line-of-sight Computation....Pages 311-327
Structure Determination using PDF....Pages 329-347
Polytope Enumeration....Pages 349-366
Synthetic Aperture Radar....Pages 367-379
VLSI Design Automation....Pages 381-399
Front Matter....Pages 309-310
Floorplanning: VLSI and other Applications....Pages 401-407
VLSI Placement....Pages 409-436
Power Estimation for VLSI....Pages 437-460
Concluding Remarks....Pages 461-464
Back Matter....Pages 1-20

✦ Subjects

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Programming Techniques; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Computer System Implementation; Algorithms