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The Cell employs a multi-core-on-chip design that integrates 9 processing elements, local memory and communication hardware into one chip. We present a source to source OpenMP compiler framework which translates the program with OpenMP directives to the necessary codes for PPE and SPE to exploit the parallelism of a sequential program through the different processing elements of the Cell. Some effective mapping strategies are also presented to conduct the thread creating and data handling between the different processors and reduce the overhead of system performance. The experimental results show that such compiler framework and mapping strategy can be effective for the heterogeneous multi-core architecture.
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Wei, H., Yu, J. (2008). Loading OpenMP to Cell: An Effective Compiler Framework for Heterogeneous Multi-core Chip. In: Chapman, B., Zheng, W., Gao, G.R., Sato, M., Ayguadé, E., Wang, D. (eds) A Practical Programming Model for the Multi-Core Era. IWOMP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4935. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69303-1_12
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