MultiCore Plus SDK for Cell
Mercury Computer is leveraging its MultiCore Plus™ Advantage for customers and partners in medical imaging, semiconductor, aerospace and defense, seismic processing, video processing, and other markets. With the MultiCore Plus™ SDK, Mercury's proven development environment, developers in research labs, universities, gaming, financial services, oil and gas, electronic data automation, video compression, biotech, and other areas can unleash the highest performing potential of Cell processor-based computing.

The MultiCore Plus SDK for Cell by Mercury Computer Systems provides the following:

Supported on Mercury and IBM Cell systems.

Enhances application performance and developer productivity.

Leverages proven Mercury technologies.

Reduces the challenges of first-time multicore development.

Enables portable, processor-agnostic multicore programming.

Certified by IBM as a Ready for IBM Technology Solution.

NOTE: Requires an x86 host to install and execute.

Includes Mercury software tools and libraries for Cell-based application development:

MultiCore Framework (MCF™)

- Runs tasks on the SPE without Linux® overhead.
- Overlaps data movement and computation automatically.
- Maximizes the resources and performance available to your application.

Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL™)

- Library of over 600 functions for use in compute intensive applications.
- Over 100 image and signal processing functions optimized specifically for the Cell architecture.

Trace Analysis Tool and Library (TATL™)

- Views dynamic multiprocessor and multicore interactions.
- Detects performance bottlenecks and visualizes deadlocks.
- Highly scalable and minimally intrusive.
- Viewer requires x86 host.

Image Processing Algorithm Library (PixL™)

- Comprehensive set of integer based math routines.
- Over 300 common image processing routines.

To learn more, visit www.mc.com