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    This document provides an overview of programming with Linux on the Playstation 3. It discusses the Cell Broadband Engine architecture, including the PowerPC core and 8 SPE cores. It introduces SIMD programming in C/C++ using intrinsics and libspe2. It also covers asynchronous data transfer between main memory and SPE local stores using DMA and double buffering techniques.

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    Architecture Overview: Introducing The Cell BE Installing Linux SIMD Programming in C/C++ Asynchronous Data Transfer With The DMA

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    ProgrammingwithLinuxonthe Playstation3

    FOSDEM2008 olivier.grisel@ensta.org

    Architectureoverview: introducingtheCellBE InstallingLinux SIMDprogramminginC/C++ Asynchronousdatatransferwith theDMA

    WhoamI

    Java/PythondeveloperatNuxeo(FOSSdocument managementserver) InterestedinArtificialIntelligence(andneedfast SupportVectorMachines) Slidestobepublishedat: http://oliviergrisel.name

    PS3architectureoverview

    CPU:IBMCell/BE@3.2GHz

    218GFLOPS MainRAM:256MBXDR(64b@3.2GHz) 1.8TFLOPS(SP)/356GFLOPSprogrammable VRAM:256MBGDDR3(2x128b@700MHz)

    GPU:NvidiaRSX

    SystemBus:2.5GB/s

    TheCellBroadbandEngine

    1PPEcore@3.2GHz

    64bithyperthreaded PowerPC 512KBL2cache 128bitSIMDoptimized 256KBSRAM

    8SPEcores@3.2GHz

    PS3Clusters

    Cheapclusterfor academicresearchers CarolinaStateU.and U.MassachusettsatD. 8+1clusterwithsshand MPI

    PS3GRIDComputing

    PS3GRIDproject

    basedonBOINC 30,000atomssimulation 1PFLOPSwith800 TFLOPSfromPS3s BlueGene==280 TFLOPS


    Folding@Home

    LinuxonthePS3

    Lv1Hypervisorshippedwiththedefaultfirmware PartitionutilityintheSonyGameOSmenu Chooseyourfavoritedistro:

    Installapowerpc64smporps3kernel Installgccspu+libspe2

    ProgrammingtheCell/BEinC

    ProgramthePPEasachiefconductortospreadthe numericalcodetoSPEs UsePOSIXthreadstostartSPEsubroutinesin parallel UseSPEintrinsicstoperformvectorinstructions EliminatebranchesasmuchaspossibleinSPEcode Alignyourdatato16bytes


    IntroductiontoSIMDprogramming

    128bitsregisters(SSE2,Altivec,SPE)

    2xdouble 4xfloat 4xint

    introducenewvectortypes 1vectorfloatoperation==4floatoperations logical(and,or,cmp,...),arithmetic(+,*,abs,...), shuffling


    SIMDprogrammingthebigpicture

    NotalwaysSIMDizable

    SIMDprogrammingwithlibspe2and gccspu

    #include<spu_intrinsics.h> avoidscalartypesuse:

    vector_float4 vector_double2 vector_char16...

    d=spu_and(a,b);e=spu_madd(a,b,c); spugccpure_spe_prog.copure_spe_prog.elf

    Branchelimination

    avoidbranching(if/else)

    c=spu_sel(a,b,spu_cmpgt(a,d));

    AsampleSPEprogram
    volatileunion{ vec_float4vec; floatpart[4]; }sum; floatdot_product(constfloat*xp,constfloat*yp,constintsize){ sum.vec=(vec_float4){0,0,0,0}; vec_float4*xvp=(vec_float4*)xp; vec_float4*yvp=(vec_float4*)yp; vec_float4*xvp_end=xvp+size/4; while(__builtin_expect(xvp<xvp_end,1)){ sum.vec=spu_madd(*xvp,*yvp,sum.vec); xvp++; yvp++; } returnsum.part[0]+sum.part[1]+sum.part[2]+sum.part[3]; }

    DMAwiththeSPUs'MemoryFlow Controllers

    #include<spu_mfcio.h> mfc_get(&local_data,main_mem_data_ea, sizeof(local_data),DMA_TAG,0,0); mfc_put(&local_data,main_mem_data_ea, sizeof(&local_data),DMA_TAG,0,0); mfc_getb(&local_data,main_mem_data_ea, sizeof(local_data),DMA_TAG,0,0); spu_mfcstat(MFC_TAG_UPDATE_ALL);


    Doublebufferingtheproblem

    Doublebufferingthebigpicture

    DoublebufferingwithMFC

    1.SPUqueuesMFCGETtofillbuffer#1 2.SPUqueuesMFCGETtofillbuffer#2 3.SPUwaitsforbuffer#1tofinishfilling 4.SPUprocessesbuffer#1 5.SPUqueuesMFCPUTbackcontentofbuffer#1 6.SPUqueuesMFCGETBtorefillbuffer#1 7.SPUwaitsforbuffer#2tofinishfilling 8.SPUprocessesbuffer#2(...)


    Someresources

    CellBEProgrammingTutorial(ibm.com190pages) IBMdeveloperworksshortprogrammingtutorials

    SearchforarticlesbyJonathanBarlett http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/ http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bader/CellProgramming.html


    BarcelonaSupercomputingCenter(software)

    PS3programmingworkshops(videos)

    #ps3devonfreenode

    Thanks,credits,licensing

    MostschemasfromexcellentGFDL'dtutorialby GeoffLevand(SonyCorp)

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell

    Picturesandtrademarksbelongtotheirrespective owners(Sony,IBM,Universities,Folding@Home, PS3GRID,...) AllremainingworkisGFDL

    7differences

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