Re: [Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
On 3/20/07, Tim Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems to me a good starting point is to divide a problem, say a CFD, into larger sections at the MPI layer and then a smaller division of the subset on the individual Cell processor. This poses the issue of message passing between disparate S

Re: [Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:00:42AM -0500, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: > >paulo lopes > > http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1274729.html I've been unable to find any information to what the virtualization does to the GBit Ethernet latency and throughput. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl htt

Re: [Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Louis Scheinine
I have not yet progammed a Playstation, the documentation says that it is easy, see in particular http://www.cellperformance.com/articles/2006/11/crosscompiling_for_ps3_linux.html as a starting point. Though not officially supported for the IBM compilers, people have gotten advice on the IBM Foru

Re: [Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-03-26 Thread Brian D. Ropers-Huilman
On 3/26/07, Paulo Afonso Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anybody had any experience on the Sony PS3 has a "Cell node"? IBM's Cell blades are hugely expensive (around 17K euros per blade, here) when compared to PS3 (around 600 euros per box). paulo lopes http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1274729.

Re: [Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-03-26 Thread Paulo Afonso Lopes
Has anybody had any experience on the Sony PS3 has a "Cell node"? IBM's Cell blades are hugely expensive (around 17K euros per blade, here) when compared to PS3 (around 600 euros per box). paulo lopes ... > I have been coding on the Cell for just over a month now. ... -- Paulo Afonso Lopes

Re: [Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Tim Wilcox wrote: > The API, as far as I have read it, does not have nice routines for message > passing between the SPUs, you have to set up your own memory transfers or > address remote memory directly using the MFC. FWIW the Charm++ folks are working on supporting Cell.

Re: [Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-03-23 Thread Joe Landman
Hi Tim Tim Wilcox wrote: I have been coding on the Cell for just over a month now. Nothing serious, just getting subroutines to run on a single SPU. This turns out to be very easy. Now I am looking at parallel programming between the SPUs and this seems much more difficult. The API, as far

[Beowulf] Cell programming

2007-03-23 Thread Tim Wilcox
I have been coding on the Cell for just over a month now. Nothing serious, just getting subroutines to run on a single SPU. This turns out to be very easy. Now I am looking at parallel programming between the SPUs and this seems much more difficult. The API, as far as I have read it, does no