[osuosl-powerdev] Feedback on Cell usage

[Tilmann Scheller]

Hi Lance,

I was planning to set up a nightly tester for the Cell SPU backend of
the LLVM compiler infrastructure (http://llvm.org), however the
backend still has some issues which need to be fixed so a nightly
tester is not useful at this point (those issues are being worked on).
Right now I'm mostly working on the PowerPC backend of LLVM, in the
past I have also hacked on the SPU backend and I plan to work on it
again in the future.

Currently I'm actively working on a fault simulation (parallel-pattern
single-fault propagation) which is accelerated on the SPUs, however I
wasn't sure whether I can use the OSUOSL machines for this, as
strictly speaking this is not open source work, I would be glad to do
so though.

So all in all I would be very happy if the Cell blades would continue running :)

Cheers,

Tilmann

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> We might be losing the Cell based machines we currently have from IBM
> soon and we need to know what you all have been doing on them. Can you
> please email me any projects that you are using the cells for? Anything
> interesting would be helpful.
>
> Please send your feedback no later than noon PDT Thursday this week!
>
> Thanks!
>
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