Octopiler to Ease Use of Cell Processor

Sean0michael writes "Ars Technica is running a piece about The Octopiler from IBM. The Octopiler is supposed to be compiler designed to handle the Cell processor (the one inside Sony's PS3). From the article: 'Cell's greatest strength is that there's a lot of hardware on that chip. And Cell's greatest weakness is that there's a lot of hardware on that chip. So Cell has immense performance potential, but if you want to make it programable by mere mortals then you need a compiler that can ingest code written in a high-level language and produce optimized binaries that fit not just a programming model or a microarchitecture, but an entire multiprocessor system.' The article also has several links to some technical information released by IBM."

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So don't hire mere mortals

[ScrewMaster]

Hire "Real Programmers". You know, the ones that only code in Assembler, and if they can't do it in Assembler then it isn't worth doing.

Re:So don't hire mere mortals

[SkyFire360]

So don't hire mere mortals, Hire "Real Programmers"

Zeus was booked, Apollo was out of town, Hermes is still learning, Posideon just signed a 500-year agreement with Apple and Ares was killed off in God of War, so most of the good non-mortal programmers were out of the question. Hades claims to be a writer instead of a programmer, but most of the plot lines he comes up with ends up with everyone dead.

Re:So don't hire mere mortals

[Kadin2048]

Oh, come on. Everyone knows that Hades isn't a programmer any more, not since he got promoted to Management and got that whole division to run down there.

Re:So don't hire mere mortals

[LostCluster]

Help Wanted: Game Programmers

Must have 5 years experience coding in Assembly for the IBM Cell processor

Re:Sadly, not a lotta FPU hardware.

[OldManAndTheC]

Are we really that tiny a proportion of the world's population?

You math geeks need to multiply. :)