Z Joint Cell Competence Center

Spis treści 1 Research Projects 1.1 Medical Imaging 1.2 Computer Vision 1.3 Math 1.4 Weather forecasting 1.5 Drug Design 1.6 Bioinformatics 2 Libraries 2.1 FFT 2.2 MPI 3 Tools 3.1 Visual Performance Analyzer (VPA) 4 Technical papers & documentation 4.1 Benchmarking 5 Developer Sites 6 Developer Forums 7 Competence Centers

Research Projects

Medical Imaging

• "Tomographic Image Reconstruction using the Cell Broadband Engine"

Computer Vision

• OpenCV on Cell
• "Digital Media Indexing on the Cell Processor"

Math

• Conjugate Gradient (CG) on Cell
• PLASMA (Linear Algebra) at ICL [1], PLASMA (Linear Algebra) at ICL [2]

Weather forecasting

• Cell Study Feature at NASA HEC

Drug Design

• "Drug Design on the Cell BroadBand Engine"

Bioinformatics

• "Experiences with Parallelizing a Bio-informatics Program on the Cell BE"
• "Optimizing Smith-Waterman for the Cell Broadband Engine"
• "Exploring the viability of the Cell Broadband Engine for bioinformatics applications"
• "RAxML-Cell: Parallel Phylogenetic Tree Inference on the Cell Broadband Engine"

Libraries

FFT

• Fastest FFT on Cell
• FFTW on Cell
• "A Parallel 64K Complex FFT Algorithm for the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Broadband Engine Processor"
• "A Programming Example: Large FFT on the Cell Broadband Engine"

MPI

• "A Synchronous Mode MPI Implementation on the Cell BE™ Architecture"
• "Feasibility study of MPI implementation on the heterogeneous multi-core cell BE™ architecture"

Tools

Visual Performance Analyzer (VPA)

• VPA web page at AlphaWorks
• VPA User Guide

Technical papers & documentation

Benchmarking

• "On the Design and Analysis of Irregular Algorithms on the Cell Processor: A case study on list ranking"
• "Multicore Surprises: Lessons Learned from Optimizing Sweep3D on the Cell Broadband Engine"

Developer Sites

• CellCorner at www.power.org
• Cell Broadband Engine resource center at developerWorks
• IBM Student Portal: Cell BE Contest 07

Developer Forums

• Discussion Forum at CellCorner
• Forums and community at developerWorks
• Portugese version of developerWorks

Competence Centers

• Georgia Tech - STI Center of Competence
• EPUSP and IBM CAS Brazil Parternship - Cell Competence Center