Mr Kay Muller from IBM, Dublin, will be giving the training which is intended to show how the unique aspects of the Cell processor can be programmed and used. Participants are requested to bring laptop computers with wireless networking capability.
Proposed Agenda:
First Day:
Morning Theory ( 4 - 5 hours ):
- Cell B.E. Introduction (30 minutes)
- Cell B.E. Architecture (30 minutes)
- Cell SDK 3.1 (20 minutes)
- Basic Programming Concepts (40 minutes)
- Simple DMA (60 minutes)
- Mailboxes (10 minutes)
- Debugging / Performance Measurement / Visualisation (60 minutes)
Afternoon Exercises ( 1 - 2 hours ):
- DMA
- Mailboxes
- Handling multiple SPEs
- Synchronisation Techniques
Second Day
Morning Theory (4 - 5 hours):
- SIMD Programming SPE / SPU (60 minutes)
- Software Managed Cache (30 minutes)
- Alternative Programming Techniques ( 90 minutes)
- GCC
- XLC
- Hybrid Environments ( 90 minutes)
- IBM DAV
- ALF/ DaCS
Afternoon Exercises ( 3 - 4 hours):
- Hands-On Work assignments
- involves optimising an algorithm for SPE
- splitting up data between multiple SPEs
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