Cell BE Processor : Literature Library

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Industry: Brochure

Unleashing the Power of the Cell BE Processor PDF
With knowledge and vision acquired over 20 years, Mercury is unleashing the power of the Cell BE processor to offer you innovative Cell-based solutions for your most difficult computing challenges.

Industry: Case Study

Mentor Graphics: Achieving Mission-Critical Breakthrough Performance on Cell-Based EDA Platform PDF
Mentor Calibre nmOPC solution uses Mercury's Cell-based Co-Processor Acceleration System to enable computational lithography for next-generation 45-nm process chips - in hours, not weeks.

Mercury Solution Provides TFLOPS of Processing to Weed Out Semiconductor Flaws PDF
Mercury helps semiconductor test-equipment maker achieve four times the performance levels of the previous generation system at almost half the cost.

Industry: White Paper

Accelerating DFM EDP Using the Cell BE Processor Architecture PDF
In this paper, the Cell BE processor is investigated for its impact on typical tasks of computational lithography, with the result of a speedup by a factor of 10 under certain configurations.

European Option Pricing with Monte Carlo Simulation on the Cell BE Processor PDF
This white paper analyzes the performance of the Cell BE processor by implementing a Monte Carlo simulation to price European options, demonstrating that the Cell processor is uniquely positioned to perform the most challenging financial applications.

Technical: Technical Brief

Cell Architecture: Disruptive Technology for Processing C4ISR Data PDF
Cell technology represents an enormous, long-term investment and a quantum leap forward in performance. Mercury is preparing to deploy this technology in defense applications such as sensor image formation, situational awareness, target recognition and tracking, change detection, data fusion, and more.

Implementation of Polar Format SAR Image Formation on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine PDF
HPEC 2007 Conference Presentation - Implementation of Polar Format SAR Image Formation on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine

Mercury SIGGRAPH 2007 Tech Talk PDF
Accelerating with the Cell BE Processor: Programming the Mercury Cell Accelerator Board and Sony PS3

Performance of Multicore Matrix Multiplication Library Presentation PDF
HPEC 2007 Conference Presentation - Performance of Multicore Matrix Multiplication Library

Technical: White Paper

5 Critical Factors to Consider When Choosing a Processing Solution for Your HPC Application PDF
This paper discusses the widening gap between the required and the delivered performance of commodity processors, presents a few real-world examples, and then describes five critical factors that you should consider when selecting a processing solution for your HPC applications.

A Parallel 64K Complex FFT Algorithm for the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Broadband Engine Processor White Paper PDF
This paper uses a 64K complex FFT algorithm as an example to show how "parallel algorithms" can be efficiently implemented on the multicore Cell Broadband Engine processor.

MultiCore Framework: API for Programming Heterogeneous Multicore Processsors PDF
Emerging multicore processors contain specialized processing elements that must be explicitly managed by software. This paper describes a software toolkit for programming heterogeneous multicore processors such as the Cell Broadband Engine processor.

Performance and Programmability of the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Broadband Engine Processor PDF
Cell architecture offers massive compute power on a single chip. This paper describes the performance of signal processing algorithms optimized for the Cell BE processor and a programming model to achieve high performance.

Space Time Adaptive Processing Estimates for IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Broadband Engine Processor PDF
Using the RT_STAP benchmark from MITRE as a reference application, this paper explores the application of a computationally intensive adaptive nulling problem on the Cell Broadband Engine architecture.

White Paper: Cell Architecture Advantages for Computationally Intensive Applications PDF
The processing power of the Cell BE processor results from its performance-leading architectural design, which provides a number of advantages for computationally intensive applications. Large FFT processing, high-resolution medical imaging, advanced SAR, semiconductor wafer inspection, real-time surveillance/ security/ reconnaissance, and many other applications can benefit from this breakthrough technology.

Benchmark

Benchmark: Benchmark Literature

Algorithm Performance on the Cell Broadband Engine™ Processor Benchmark PDF
This benchmark document compares Mercury optimized Cell algorithm implementations with the best available implementations on other processors.

Product: Boards

Cell Accelerator Board 2 PDF
The Cell Accelerator Board 2 is a PCI Express® accelerator card that offers order-of-magnitude faster image and signal processing in a package designed for high-performance environments.

Dual Cell-Based Blade 2 PDF
The Dual Cell-Based Blade 2 is a second-generation product based on the Cell Broadband Engine^TM (BE) processor and the open IBM BladeCenter® H chassis, with outstanding performance density for high-performance computing applications.

Product: System

1U Dual Cell-Based System 2 PDF
The 1U Dual Cell-Based System 2 is a flexible computing solution, based on the Cell BE processor, with outstanding performance for HPC applications.

25U/42U Dual Cell-Based Blade 2 Systems PDF
The 25U/42U Dual Cell-Based Blade 2 System is a high-performance compute cluster with enabling middleware, based on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (BE) processor and the open IBM BladeCenter® standard for managed server chassis.

CAB 2 Server Development System PDF
The CAB 2 Server Development System offers breakthrough levels of performance for signal and image processing with up to two CAB 2 modules in a high-end PCI Express server.

CAB 2 Workstation Development System PDF
The CAB 2 Workstation Development System (CWDS 2) is a standalone hardware and software platform packaged in a high-end workstation for developing applications on Cell hardware.

Cell Workstation Development System PDF
The Cell Workstation Development System (CWDS) offers developers the opportunity to develop applications on Cell hardware. The compact and affordable PCI Express®-based workstation platform gives you access to the programming model for the Cell Broadband Engine™ (BE) processor.

Product: Software

MultiCore Framework PDF
Harness the performance of the Cell BE processor with MultiCore Framework (MCF) software. Leveraging proven Mercury technologies, MCF simplifies the development of Cell-based high-performance applications and maximizes the resources available to your application.

MultiCore Plus SDK PDF
The MultiCore Plus SDK is a suite of software products specifically designed for next-generation multicore processors such as the Cell Broadband Engine^TM (BE) processor.

Parallel Acceleration System (PAS) PDF
The Parallel Acceleration System (PAS) accelerates the development of parallel processing applications, while maximizing the performance of interprocessor data communications and facilitating software portability using the Data Reorganization Interface (DRI) standard.

Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL) PDF
The Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL) optimizes processor resources through algorithm (primitive) implementations that make the most efficient use of all processor resources.

Trace Analysis Tool and Library (TATL) PDF
Trace Analysis Tool and Library (TATL™) helps software developers tune and debug real-time multiprocessor and multicore processor applications, providing insight into the dynamic interactions among processors in systems of all sizes.