Practical Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine

• Main Author: Koranne, Sandeep (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Special purpose computers.; Architecture, Computer.; Computer programming.; Computers.; Algorithms.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Programming Techniques.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Computer System Implementation.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introducing the Cell Broadband Engine
• The Power Processing Element (PPE)
• The Synergistic Processing Element
• Element Interconnect Bus
• Direct Memory Access (DMA)
• Programming the Cell Broadband Engine
• Foundations for Program Development on CBE
• The development environment
• Hello World
• An Overview of the SDK
• Basic Algorithms
• Graph Theory on the CBEA
• Alternative methods for parallel programming on SPE
• Computational Mathematics on the CBEA
• Vector Graphics on SPU
• Optimizing SPU Programs
• Case Studies
• Line-of-sight Computation
• Structure Determination using PDF
• Polytope Enumeration
• Synthetic Aperture Radar
• VLSI Design Automation
• Floorplanning: VLSI and other Applications
• VLSI Placement
• Power Estimation for VLSI
• Concluding Remarks.