A Cell Transterpreter

Dimmich, Damian J. and Jacobsen, Christian L. and Jadud, Matthew C. (2006) A Cell Transterpreter. In: Communicating Process Architectures 2006: WoTUG-29.

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Abstract

The Cell Broadband Engine is a hybrid processor which consists of a PowerPC core and eight vector co-processors on a single die. Its unique design poses a number of language design and implementation challenges. To begin exploring these challenges, we have ported the ttt to the Cell Broadband Engine. The ttt is a small, portable runtime for concurrent languages and can be used as a platform for experimenting with language concepts. This paper describes a preliminary attempt at porting the ttt runtime to the Cell Broadband Engine and explores ways to program it using a concurrent language.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Uncontrolled keywords:	Cell Processor, Transterpreter, occam-pi
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Systems Architecture Group
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2008 18:03
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2011 01:32
Resource URI:	http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14411 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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