Cell Broadband Engine Links II [06/04/10: Full]

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Cell Broadband Engine Links III [], 2006-04-18
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[06/04/10]
IBM ライフサイエンス > ソリューション > 創薬ソリューション >
Cellブレード 評価用限定システム・キャンペーン
　http://www.ibm.com/jp/solutions/lifesciences/solutions/discovery/it/cellblade_index.html
キャンペーン期間は記載されていません。
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[06/04/04]
"Mercury Computer Systems Announces the First 1U Blade Server with Cell BE Processors", 2006-04-03
　http://www.mc.com/mediacenter/pr/news_details.cfm?press_id=2006%5F04%5F03%5F0900%5F102634%5F51756pr%2Ecfm
　"announced the 1U Dual Cell-Based Server, its latest Cell Broadband Engine(TM) (BE) processor-based
　 product and first 1U server available with Cell Technology, at the embedded Systems Conference"
1U Dual Cell-Based Server
　http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=96&type=boards
　　2 Cell BE processors at 3.2 GHz, 410 GFLOPS total on the server
　　1 GB XDR DRAM, Flash: 8MB, NVRAM: 1MB
　　1 IDE HDD
　　2 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
　　2 PCIe x4 low-profile cards (daughtercards)
　　System management processor
　　Mercury MultiCore Plus™ Advantage software available
　　　Linux®: Linux with BE-SPE extensions
　　　SAL (Scientific Algorithm Library)
　　　PAS™ (Parallel Acceleration System)
　　　TATL™ (Trace Analysis Tool and Library)
　　　MCF (MultiCore Framework)
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[06/03/31]
Sony Computer Entertainment US Research and Development
　http://research.scea.com/
　"Crowd Simulation on PS3",
　　Craig Reynolds, Game Developers Conference 2006.
　"High Performance Physics Solver Design for Next Generation Consoles",
　　Vangelis Kokkevis, Eric Larsen and Steven Osman, Game Developers Conference 2006.
　Game Developers Conference 2006, 2006/03/20-24での発表資料
　　http://japan.gdconf.com/
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[06/03/29]
"Cell Can’t Texture?", GameTomorrow, 24 March 2006
　http://gametomorrow.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/24/cell-cant-texture/
SPEの 256KBのローカルストアー DMAメモリーをソフトウェアキャッシュとして利用したテクスチャマッピングの報告
　"Using only seven 3.2 GHz SPEs we were able to raytrace 15 frames per second with a frame resolution of
　 1024×1024. The texture buffer held a cubemap with 1024×1024x16 bit texel faces resulting in a 12.5 MB
　 texture buffer in XDR system memory. The performance penalty for using the five pass texture shader vs
　 the lighting only shader was just 13%."
でもムービー(ちょっと巨大)もあります。

"IBM at the Game Developers Conference this week", GameTomorrow, 23 March 2006
　http://gametomorrow.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/23/ibm-at-the-game-developers-conference-this-week/
2006年 3月20～25日に米国で開催された Game Developers Conference 2006での IBMブース
(Sony PS3ではなく IBM Cell Bladeでのデモ)についての blogエントリー
　"What you will see at the demo: To demonstrate the performance acceleration available on the
　 Cell BE processor when using the Rapid development Platform, RapidMind has created a world in which
　 the behaviors of thousands of interacting characters are simulated.
　 In the demonstration (photo below) the Simulation Application is built in C++ using the RapidMind
　 Development platform. RapidMind in turn leverages the power of two Cell BE processors on an IBM Cell blade
　 to perform the simulation caculations. The state of each character (in this case chickens!) is streamed
　 to the Visualization Application where RapidMind is used to map the state of each character onto
　 visualization and to implement the shaders on the GPU.”
RapidMind
　http://www.rapidmind.net/index.php
　Michael D. McCool博士, Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo
　　http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~mmccool/
　を共同設立者とした、ミドルウェアのカナダのベンチャー企業
一つの C+＋プログラムを CPU, GPU, Cellの特徴に合わせてマッピングしてくれる仕組みだそうです。
ターゲットは、
　Game Development, Image Processing, Content Generation, Scientific Computation
と広範です。

Game Developers Conference 2006については
Game Developers Conference 2006記事リンク集, Impress Game Watch
　http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060324/gdclink.htm
等を参考にして下さい。

Cell BEとは直接関係ありませんが、
"Nvidia says lands new Sony design contract", Reuters, March 23, 2006
　http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=technology&storyID=nN23330678
　"Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. (NVDA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it has
　 a new design contract with Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) that will pay more than
　 it earned for creating the graphics processor for the upcoming PlayStation 3 video game console."
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[06/03/22]
"AGEIA PhysX SDK for PLAYSTATION®3, Optimized for Cell Processor, to be Available on March 31st", March 21, 2006
　http://ageia.vnewscenter.com/press.jsp?id=1141898679393
　"The AGEIA PhysX SDK is highly recognized for its extensive physics functionality and
　 multithreading capabilities, which are uniquely suited for the multicore architecture of
　 the Cell processor adopted on PLAYSTATION®3. The latest AGEIA PhysX SDK version 2.4
　 is optimized for the Cell processor, adding mind-blowing physics action to the high-definition
　 graphics of PLAYSTATION®3 titles."
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[06/03/21]
Linux v2.6.16 has been released.
　Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:23:04 -0800 (PST)
　From: Linus Torvalds <>
　Subject: Linux v2.6.16
　　http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/20/9
ChangeLog-2.6.16, 19 Mar 2006
　http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16
Comprehensible changelog
　http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
　Google's text-only cache of http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
　　http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:IT1X2f-H0yUJ:wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges+&lr=&strip=1
　2.6.16
　　Architecture-specific
　　PPC
　　　"SPU file system. The SPU file system is used on PowerPC machines that implement the
　　　 Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (aka: Cell processors) in order to access Synergistic
　　　 Processor Units (SPUs). The file system provides a name space similar to posix shared
　　　 memory or message queues. Users that have write permissions on the file system can
　　　 use spu_create(2) to establish SPU contexts in the spufs root. Every SPU context is
　　　 represented by a directory containing a predefined set of files. These files can be used for
　　　 manipulating the state of the logical SPU. For more details, read the Documentation"
　　Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
　　　http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
　　参考資料 (Cell Broadband Engine Links I で紹介済み)
　　IBM developerWorks > Power Architecture technology
　　　Cell Broadband Engine resource center
　　　http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
　　　"Spufs: The Cell Synergistic Processing Unit as a virtual file system
　　　 The Linux programming model for Cell",
　　　　Arnd Bergmann, IBM, 25 Jun 2005
　　　　http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cell/
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[06/03/18]
"IBM and Rambus Sign Technology License Agreement for Cell Processors", 3/17/2006
　http://www.rambus.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=199
　"Rambus FlexIO™ processor bus and XDR™ memory technologies to be integrated into
　 future Cell Broadband Engine processor-based products"
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[06/02/26]
IBM System Journal, Volume 45, Number 1, 2006
　Online Game Technology
　http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/451/tocpdf.html
が全て公開。
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Cell Broadband Engine Links I [06/02/26:Full], 2006-02-26
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