Practical Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine [electronic resource] / by Sandeep Koranne.

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.

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.