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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No, it's there alright

[Daath]

Nah, it's there. Download it, if you want ;)

here's the real article...

[advocate_one]

Using advanced compiler technology to exploit the performance of the Cell Broadband Engine architecture

enjoy... :)