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GRANITE BAY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CodeSourcery, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with IBM to develop a version of Sourcery VSIPL++ for the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor. Sourcery VSIPL++, a high-performance signal- and image-processing (SIP) toolkit, dramatically simplifies the task of developing SIP applications for the Cell/B.E. processor. Because it implements a high-level, open-standard API, Sourcery VSIPL++ also facilitates the reuse of applications.

On a fast convolution benchmark, Sourcery VSIPL++ used the IBM Cell/B.E. Software Development Kit (SDK) to achieve performance of 83 GFLOPS on one Cell/B.E. processor and 318 GFLOPS on four Cell/B.E. processors – demonstrating 40% utilization of peak processing capability, linear scalability to multi-Cell systems, and a ten-fold performance improvement relative to conventional processors. With Sourcery VSIPL++’s compact syntax, fast convolution can be expressed in just eight lines of C++ and requires no Cell-specific code.

As part of its partnership with IBM, CodeSourcery will also develop high-performance math routines for the Cell/B.E. processor’s asymmetric multi-core architecture. These routines will run on both the Synergistic Processing Engines (SPEs) and the Power Processing Engine (PPE). Sourcery VSIPL++ will leverage these routines as well as the IBM SDK.

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