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. 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 subjectmatter A website providing all source codes and sample-data for examples presented in this text. 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 areaof 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 INDICE: From the contents Introducing the Cell Broadband Engine.- Introduction.- The Power Processing Element (PPE).- Element Interconnect Bus.- The Synergistic Processing Element.- A Closer Look at SPU dual-pipeline.- Direct Memory Access (DMA).- MailBox facility.- Foundations for Program Development on CBE.- The development environment.- HelloWorld.- Basic Algorithms.- Graph Theoryon the CBEA.- Alternative methods for parallel programming on SPE.- Text hashing.- Text compression.- Text encryption.- Matrix Algorithms and Implementations.- Computational Mathematics on the CBEA.- Line-of-sight Computation .- SPU Overlays and Isolated Execution.- Message Passing Methods.- Structure Determination using PDF.- Solving Equations in a Single Complex Variable.- Polytope Enumeration.- Synthetic Aperture Radar.- Image Processing on the CBEA.- VLSI Design: Design Automation.- Microword Optimization on the SPU.- Scheduling problems in VLSI.- Floorplanning: VLSI and other Applications.- VLSI Placement.- VLSI Global Routing.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-0307-5
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 500
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés