IBM is at the Game Developers Conference this week. Come by and see us at booth #1230.
One of the things we are showing is a demo of the RapidMind Development Platform and Cell BE. From the RapidMind handout available at the booth:
“The RapidMind Development Platform allows developers to use standard C++ programming to easily create applications targeted for high performance processors including the Cell BE, GPUs and multi-core CPUs. In the case of the Cell BE, the RapidMind platform distributes processing across the SPEs without any explicit reference by the developer to the Cell BE. The platform provides a simple computational model that can be targeted by programmers and then maps this model onto any available computational resources in a system. Code can be written once then run in parallel on any of the processors that RapidMind supports.
What you will see at the demo: To demonstrate the performance acceleration available on the Cell BE processor when using the Rapid development Platform, RapidMind has created a world in which the behaviors of thousands of interacting characters are simulated.
In the demonstration (photo below) the Simulation Application is built in C++ using the RapidMind Development platform. RapidMind in turn leverages the power of two Cell BE processors on an IBM Cell blade to perform the simulation caculations. The state of each character (in this case chickens!) is streamed to the Visualization Application where RapidMind is used to map the state of each character onto visualization and to implement the shaders on the GPU.”

Among the executives at the booth are:

IBM: Hina Shah, Director, Cell Ecosystem & Solutions Development, Bruce D’Amora, Cell Digital Media Solutions Architect, Tanaz Sowdagar Marketing Manager Emerging Technologies, and Michael PerroneIBM Research Manager, Cell Applications Group, IBM Master Inventor
RapidMind: Ray DePaul, President & CEO, Stefanus Du Toit, Vice President, Development, Michael McCool, Chief Scientist, and Matthew Monteyne, Vice President Sales and Marketing.

Visit RapidMind at: http://www.rapidmind.net

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