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Cell Broadband Engine™ and multicore resources for developers (formerly Power Architecture®)

	Updated 06 May 2008

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Programming with DaCS: Error handling: A quick read on DaCS error handling with a code example and details on seven error APIs.

Fun with ALF, Part 3: Finding minimum and maximum values: Use the task context to combine partial task instance results into the final result in this example.

Infobomb: Programming with DaCS: DaCS DE types: A quick read on the four DaCS Elements (DE) types supported in the current DaCS topology.

The little broadband engine that could: DaCS--flexible and complex: See how you can tune inputs and results with DaCS more gracefully in this fractal-generating example.

Infobomb: Using the overlapped I/O buffer when programming with ALF: A quick read on when to use the ALF overlapped I/O buffer to maximize accelerator memory use.

Cell/B.E. SDK 3.0 tools, Part 1: Using performance tools: Take a tour of six performance tools for use with the Cell/B.E. SDK 3.0 in this quick tutorial.


(Coming soon) Fun with ALF, Part 4: Determining the dot product of large vectors: Use the task context and bundled work block distribution to overcome a local memory limit.

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