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On February the 23rd I had the opportunity to give a presentation on programming the Cell BE processor of the Playstation 3 at the 2008 edition of the FOSDEM in Brussels. You can download my slides as pdf or open document format (odp). The talk was recorded by the devroom organizers. The following player can be used to preview it or you can grab the ogg/theora+vorbis video and use a suitable player (such as vlc).

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If you have a PS3 and want Ubuntu Linux installed on it, please have a look at the official Ubuntu help page.

FYI I had installed the latest version of 7.4 for PS3 using the alternate CD (text based) installer and then upgraded to 7.10 later with aptitude. Other distros have their own PS3 howto.

Once you have Linux up and running I suggest you to first have a look at the following resources:

• General documentation for Linux on the Cell by Geoff Levand on kernel.org
• Tutorial to learn SPE programming on kernel.org too
• The official IBM tutorial
• The IBM developerworks resource center that has further pointers to official documentation, forums, SDK releases and third party websites

You can also join the IRC channel #PS3Dev on freenode.org where I tend to be connected as ogrisel.

Finally you might want to have a look at the simd4libsvm project I started on launchpad to add SIMD and threading support to the libsvm open source library. This library is the reference implementation of the Support Vector Machines machine learning algorithms.

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