Monday, January 12, 2009

The Microsoft Crabby Office Lady Tells It Like It Is or Programming the Cell Processor

The Microsoft Crabby Office Lady Tells It Like It Is: Secrets to Surviving Office Life

Author: Annik Stahl

The Crabby Office Lady's humorous online column reaches more than 250,000 people a month, and more than 10,000 people view her videos each month. The real Crabby Office Lady, Annik Stahl, has helped Microsoft put a human face on the sometimes frustrating world of work. In this humorous but practical take on how to survive today's office environment, Microsoft's very own Crabby Office Lady shows you how to make the most of Microsoft Office programs so that you can be more efficient, collaborate more effectively, and spend more time doing the things that really matter to you. Topics include:

  • Minding your e-mail manners
  • Customizing Office: toolbars, menus, colors, buttons, fonts, templates, and more
  • Working with difficult people, collaborating, and surviving office life and culture
  • Using the "get away from it all" checklist to prepare for vacation, so that you don't come back to an avalanche of work
  • Surviving performance reviews: how to track projects, make notes, and keep track of wins and losses on a daily (or weekly) basis, rather than trying to pull it together at the end of the year
  • Improving ergonomics and using the accessibility features in Office and Microsoft Windows
  • Demystifying computer terms, e-mail terms, and general software terms
  • Working from home: pros, cons, and best practices for telecommuting
  • Delegating and preparing for effective meetings
  • Taking advantage of Office Online templates, clip art, training, and the Office Marketplace



New interesting book: 30 Minutes to Mealtime or Uitimate Venison Cookery

Programming the Cell Processor: For Games, Graphics, and Computation

Author: Matthew Scarpino

Make the Most of IBM’s Breakthrough Cell Processor in Any Gaming, Graphics, or Scientific Application


 


IBM’s Cell processor delivers truly stunning computational power: enough to satisfy even the most demanding gamers and graphics developers. That’s why Sony chose the Cell to drive its breakthrough PlayStation 3 and why Cell processors are at the heart of today’s most powerful supercomputers. But many developers have struggled to create high-performance Cell applications: the practical, coherent information they need simply hasn’t existed.


 


Programming the Cell Processor solves that problem once and for all. Whether you’re a game developer, graphics programmer, or engineer, Matthew Scarpino shows you how to create applications that leverage all the Cell’s extraordinary power. Scarpino covers everything from the Cell’s advanced architecture to its powerful tools and libraries, presenting realistic code examples that help you gain an increasingly deep and intuitive understanding of Cell development.


 


Scarpino illuminates each of the Cell’s most important technical innovations, introduces the commands needed to access its power, and walks you through the entire development process, including compiling, linking, debugging, and simulating code. He also offers start-to-finish case studies for three especially important Cell applications: games, graphics, and scientific computing. The Cell platform offers unprecedented potential, and this book will help you make the most of it.


 


  • Mastering the Cell SDK, includingthe GCC-based buildchain, ppu-gdb/spu-gdb debuggers, IBM Full System Simulator, and Cell IDE

  • Understanding the Cell’s central processing core, the PowerPC Processor Unit (PPU): structure, programming libraries, and AltiVec instructions

  • Programming the Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU): vector processing, communication, caching, assembler coding, and more

  • Leveraging SDK vector and matrix libraries, including the Large Matrix Library, BLAS Library, FFT libraries, Multiprecision Library, and Monte Carlo API

  • Coding basic 2D graphics using the Linux frame buffer

  • Building 3D graphics with the new Gallium OpenGL library 

  • Constructing 3D games with Ogre3D and packaging them using Collada digital content interchange

  • Optimizing the performance of your Cell applications

  • Developing on standard PCs and transferring code to Cell systems such as the PlayStation 3

 



Foreword xv


Preface xvii


Chapter 1: Introducing the Cell Processor 1


Part I: The Software Development Tools 13


Chapter 2: The Cell Software Development Kit (SDK) 15


Chapter 3: Building Applications for the Cell Processor 35


Chapter 4: Debugging and Simulating Applications 53


Chapter 5: The Cell SDK Integrated Development Environment 83


Part II: The PowerPC Processor Element (PPE) 97


Chapter 6: Introducing the PowerPC Processor Unit (PPU) 99


Chapter 7: The SPE Runtime Management Library (libspe) 125


Chapter 8: SIMD Programming on the PPU, Part 1: Vector Libraries and Functions 153


Chapter 9: SIMD Programming on the PPU, Part 2: Methods and Algorithms 195


Part III: The Synergistic Processor Element (SPE) 217


Chapter 10: Introducing the Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU) 219


Chapter 11: SIMD Programming on the SPU 239


Chapter 12: SPU Communication, Part 1: Direct Memory Access (DMA) 285


Chapter 13: SPU Communication, Part 2: Events, Signals, and Mailboxes 317


Chapter 14: Advanced SPU Topics: Overlays, Software Caching, and SPU Isolation 345


Chapter 15: SPU Assembly Language 367


Part IV: Mathematics and Computation 409


Chapter 16: Vectors and Matrices 411


Chapter 17: The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) 439


Chapter 18: Multiprecision Processing and Monte Carlo Methods 463


Part V: Graphics and Games 489


Chapter 19: Programming the Frame Buffer: Linux and the PlayStation 3 491


Chapter 20: OpenGL on the Cell: Gallium and Mesa 503


Chapter 21: Building Games with Ogre3D 529


Chapter 22: Packaging Graphics with COLLADA 559


Epilogue 581


Part VI: Appendices 583


Appendix A: Understanding ELF Files 585


Appendix B: Updating the PS3 Add-On Packages and Installing a New Linux Kernel 609


Appendix C: The Accelerated Library Framework (ALF) 617


Appendix D: SPU Instruction Set Reference 649


Appendix E: A Brief Introduction to Tcl 661


Index 669



 





Table of Contents:
Foreword xv


Preface xvii


Chapter 1: Introducing the Cell Processor 1


Part I: The Software Development Tools 13


Chapter 2: The Cell Software Development Kit (SDK) 15


Chapter 3: Building Applications for the Cell Processor 35


Chapter 4: Debugging and Simulating Applications 53


Chapter 5: The Cell SDK Integrated Development Environment 83


Part II: The PowerPC Processor Element (PPE) 97


Chapter 6: Introducing the PowerPC Processor Unit (PPU) 99


Chapter 7: The SPE Runtime Management Library (libspe) 125


Chapter 8: SIMD Programming on the PPU, Part 1: Vector Libraries and Functions 153


Chapter 9: SIMD Programming on the PPU, Part 2: Methods and Algorithms 195


Part III: The Synergistic Processor Element (SPE) 217


Chapter 10: Introducing the Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU) 219


Chapter 11: SIMD Programming on the SPU 239


Chapter 12: SPU Communication, Part 1: Direct Memory Access (DMA) 285


Chapter 13: SPU Communication, Part 2: Events, Signals, and Mailboxes 317


Chapter 14: Advanced SPU Topics: Overlays, Software Caching, and SPU Isolation 345


Chapter 15: SPU Assembly Language 367


Part IV: Mathematics and Computation 409


Chapter 16: Vectors and Matrices 411


Chapter 17: The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) 439


Chapter 18: Multiprecision Processing and Monte Carlo Methods 463


Part V: Graphics and Games 489


Chapter 19: Programming the Frame Buffer:Linux and the PlayStation 3 491


Chapter 20: OpenGL on the Cell: Gallium and Mesa 503


Chapter 21: Building Games with Ogre3D 529


Chapter 22: Packaging Graphics with COLLADA 559


Epilogue 581


Part VI: Appendices 583


Appendix A: Understanding ELF Files 585


Appendix B: Updating the PS3 Add-On Packages and Installing a New Linux Kernel 609


Appendix C: The Accelerated Library Framework (ALF) 617


Appendix D: SPU Instruction Set Reference 649


Appendix E: A Brief Introduction to Tcl 661


Index 669

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