Cell Devel Nodes

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Cell Development Cluster
300px-Cell Broadband Engine Processor.jpg
Installed June 2010
Operating System Linux
Interconnect Infiniband
Ram/Node 32 Gb
Cores/Node 2 PPU + 16 SPU
Login/Devel Node cell-srv01 (from login.scinet)
Vendor Compilers ppu-gcc, spu-gcc

The Cell Development Cluster is a technology evaluation cluster with a combination of 14 IBM PowerXCell 8i "Cell" nodes and 8 Intel x86_64 "Nehalem" nodes. The QS22's each have two 3.2GHz "IBM PowerXCell 8i CPU's, where each CPU has 1 Power Processing Unit (PPU) and 8 Synergistic Processing Units (SPU), and 32GB of RAM per node. The Intel nodes have two 2.53GHz 4core Xeon X5550 CPU's with 48GB of RAM per node.

Login

First login via ssh with your scinet account at login.scinet.utoronto.ca, and from there you can proceed to cell-srv01 which is currently the gateway machine.

Compile/Devel/Compute Nodes

Currently you can log into any of 12 nodes blade03..blade14 directly to compile/test/run your code.

Local Disk

This test cluster currently cannot see the global /home and /scratch space so you will have to copy (scp,etc..) your code to a separate local /home dedicated for this cluster.

Programming Frameworks

Currently there are two programming frameworks to use.

OpenCL

Take a look at 

/usr/share/doc/OpenCL-0.1-ibm

Cell SDK

Take a look at 

/opt/cell/sdk/usr

Compilers

ppu-gcc -- GNU GCC PowerPC compiler

spu-gcc -- GNU GCC SPU compiler

xlcl -- IBM XL OpenCL compiler


HELP!

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/index.jsp

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