Nothelle - Harmonic Software Systems releases accessible antecedent apparatus to alleviate the ability of the PLAYSTATION 3

Harmonic Software Systems releases Cell Execution FrameworkStore this angel in big sizeHarmonic Software Systems has appear the Cell/BE Execution Framework (CEF) to the accessible antecedent community, acceptance industry and academia to alleviate the massive accretion power, which is aural the PLAYSTATION 3’s Cell processor.

Crawley, UK. January 13, 2009. Harmonic Software Systems appear today the availability of the Cell Execution Framework (CEF), as a chargeless download beneath the BSD accessible antecedent license. The CEF has been advised to alleviate the ability of the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell), so that software engineers can alpha to use the ability of the Cell straightaway.

The Cell Processor is the after-effects of a $400M accord amid IBM, Sony and Toshiba, and offers a massive 218 GFLOPS of raw accretion power. However, with its 64-bit PowerPC architectonics and nine CPU cores, it can be difficult to advantage the ability of the chip.

The CEF provides the afterward allowances to affluence the development of applications for the Cell:
*An simple to use command band apparatus to assassinate user algorithms on the Cell Simulator, PS3, IBM Blade or PCI Express processor board.
*File I/O and Socket I/O to the Cell
*Parameter casual down to the algorithm
*Double buffered DMA abutment for best abstracts throughput
*An simple to use body environment, just blazon 'make'
*Automatic parallelisation of the user's algorithm assimilate a defined amount of processors (SPEs)
*Example cipher for FFT and angel rotation

“The CEF allows an architect to apply alone on the algorithm that is beneath development. All the blow of the cipher to apprehend and address abstracts from a book or a socket, to allotment that abstracts and to DMA the abstracts to and from the processor cores is done by the CEF”, explains Ed Liversidge, Director and architect of Harmonic Software Systems.

“We are acquisitive that anyone from academia will be able to crop the CEF and use it to accomplish some actively bargain amount crunching. In addition, the ability of the Cell can calmly be activated to applications in the fields of financial, medical, aegis and encryption, video coding and decoding, alarm and alarm arresting processing, as able-bodied as accurate computation”, continues Ed Liversidge.

The CEF is accessible to download from www.harmonicss.co.uk, or on sourceforge.net.

Harmonic Software Systems has been developing bespoke absolute time systems and DSP solutions of the accomplished accessible above back 1999. Backed by a abundance of acquaintance in absolute time operating systems, anchored software development and agenda arresting processing, we accommodate consultancy and engineering casework to agreement a able-bodied documented, able-bodied activated software arrangement that exceeds all expectations. Visit www.harmonicss.co.uk for added information.

Ed Liversidge, Director, Harmonic Software Systems Ltd

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