Cell Devel Nodes

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Cell Development Cluster
University of Tor 79284gm-a.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 test cluster with a combination of IBM QS22 Blades that feature the "Cell Broadband Engine".

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 the 14 nodes blade01..blade14 directly to compile/test/run your code.

Programming Frameworks

Currently there are two programming frameworks to use.

OpenCL

Cell SDK

Tools