The Cell Broadband Processor is a hard to understandable enigma to programmers who have worked in the standard PC environment for a long time. With the hints from the following papers and the introduction of the IBM XL C/C++ compiler in 2007 it is now much easier to learn and program the Cell.
1st: Introduction to the XL C/C++ compiler for Linux and the Cell
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/3/897/ENUS207-253/index.html
2nd: Using advanced compiler technology to exploit the performance of the Cell Broadband Engine architecture
(that is to say read this for great hints (instruction buffering and branch hint commands))
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/sj/451/eichenberger.html
3rd: A tutorial in several parts "compiling for the cell"
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/pa-dw-pa-cbecompile1-i.html
4th: The Cell Project
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/cell/cell_programming.html
http://www.research.ibm.com/cell/publications.html
5th and final: CellSs: Making it easier to program the Cell Broadband Engine processor
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/515/perez.html
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Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.
i mean its pretty simple, they spent close to 30 billion in acquiring activision, they thought they'd make it bk no problem, and that didnt happen.
its just shit that because of MS's miscalculation alot of people lost their jobs.
They are going to use AI for a large portion of the game development process. Upper management need bonuses and the shareholders need more money. So, people will lose their jobs.
They shouldn't have bought any studios. Some is okay...but they went on a shopping spree...stupid
The better question is why did Microsoft buy publishers for a service they were subsidizing they knew couldn't support.
And why are so many websites trying to make people feel sorry for Microsoft instead of truly criticizing the fact they are closing studios and killing jobs that would have been fine if Microsoft themselves hadn't gotten involved.
Quit feeling sorry for Microsoft and start feeling sorry for the industry and the all the gamers who are actually losing out.
THIS IS MICROSOFTS FAULT.
The first thing that happens after any major acquisition or merger is a consolidation of the whole new portfolio, which includes cutting any excess, bloat or portfolios that don't fit the larger MO of the big boy. So far, it's been par for the course with Microsoft and that's why gamers have been so against this acquisition. Tango Gameworks is the beginning. You think Microsoft wants to pay to keep small timers like Ninja Theory in business?
There is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that Microsoft will improve any of these studios, but plenty to suggest that they will get rid of what they don't need and hold onto the IP. The real agenda of the acquisition was always to acquire The Elder Scrolls, Diablo, Fallout, Call of Duty, Candy Crush etc. that will create millions in passive revenue stream for Microsoft regardless of where the games release. Microsoft simply wants their cut.
Because of Games Pass Microsoft has no interest in investing in new IP which is risky and requires creative talent they can neither nurture nor manage. Game Pass has also not grown in the way Microsoft expected it to, even post acquisitions. Therefore the logical thing to do, without serious money makers to release, is to cut as much cost as possible.
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
btw: the car is created using iRT raytracer on Cell Broadband Processor
that the car model was rendered by the CELL only without the help of the graphics card by iRT
KZ2 incorporates iRT too and this is why it is the best looking game out there
So basically this is a poor mans programming tool...
Basically you write your code as you would in either C or C++ and the compiler complies it into something the Cell can work with. But that in itself is a problem because when you use a compiler to generate code into another language, like writing something in C and then using a compiler to give you it's equivalent in Mips, always gives you unoptimized code.
So it works, but not as good as it could.
How to run these files (.rpm) on the PS3?
The Big hint here isn't that the Compiler solves all the issues but that the other links show "GOOD PROGRAMMING PRACTICE" methods for the cell processor. The Compiler helps but the good practices recommended in the other links make your code sing.
Imagine branchs with a latency of 1 cycle - you can do that if you use the hbr (hintbranch instruction)
Usage of subwords for math - C and C++ does this inefficiently but it's one of Cells strengths
Scheduling of subtask - use it to reduce lengths of critical subpaths (BETTER PERFORMANCE!)
Proper extraction of SIMD instructions - better parallelization.