Extending distributed shared memory for the cell broadband engine to a channel model

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  • Kenneth Skovhede
  • Morten Nørgaard Larsen
  • Brian Vinter

As the performance gains from traditional processors decline, alternative processor designs are becoming available. One such processor is the CELL-BE processor, which theoretically can deliver a sustained performance close to 205 GFLOPS per processor[10]. Unfortunately, the high performance comes at the price of a quite complex programming model. In this paper we present an easy-to-use, CSP-like, communication method, which enables transfers of shared memory objects. The channel based communication method can significantly reduce the complexity of massively parallel programs. By implementing a few scientific computational cores we show that performance and scalability of the system is acceptable for most problems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Parallel and Scientific Computing : 10th International Conference, PARA 2010, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 6-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
EditorsKristján Jónasson
Number of pages11
VolumePart I
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2012
Pages108-118
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-28150-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-28151-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event10th International Conference on Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing - Reykjavik, Iceland
Duration: 6 Jun 20109 Jun 2010
Conference number: 10

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing
Nummer10
LandIceland
ByReykjavik
Periode06/06/201009/06/2010
SeriesLecture notes in computer science
Volume7133
ISSN0302-9743

    Research areas

  • CELL-BE, channel communication, CSP, DSMCBE

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