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celltask “A clean task interface to Cell programmers to start jobs in SPUs by hiding the tedious context/pthread creation, mailbox/signal/interrupt mailbox communication, etc.” (new)

speutils “…instance initiators for various types of posix threads to run the spe programs as well as a instance oriented message passing interface.”

“MARS (Multicore Application Runtime System) is a set of libraries that provides an API to easily manage and create user programs that will be scheduled to run on various microprocessing units of a multicore environment.”

spumedia “… to provide accellerators for the cell broadband engine processor”

spexms “Simple library for creating spe accelerators for the CELL BE and Playstation 3″

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Some notes on Fedora 11 on PS3

Intro to Cell, part 6 and part 7 the excellent series from NotZed continues.

2D Polygon rendering demo(3067FPS ver.) on PS3 Linux

YUV to RGB on SPU More in-depth spu programming from NotZed.

Insomniac games Nocturnal Initiative and also #nocturnal on irc.freenode.net  (and Insomniac’s R&D page is always a good read)

global namespace afuse + sshfs

a lesson is learned comic by braid artist (care of dinosaur comics)

Julie Cohen publications care of comments from a creativity and copyright presentation via @PeterBlackQUT

they write the write stuff space shuttle programming

spacewalk systems management

25 microchips that shook the world

seamlessrdp

Cubular – I wonder how hard it would be to make one…
25c3 – Hours of entertainment.

Perpetual calendar – Just the thing to go with my binary clock.

No great archive in the sky – Backup. (note to self: backup).

Geeks Bearing Gifts – Want.

Twitterville

Historical apologetics – a big bunch of links.

Imprecatory psalms – smite him in the head!

Worship matters stuff (a fantastic blog) – success, theology, spontaneity.

Divergent series – the universe is twos-complement.

Suffering souls – New Yorker on psychopathy.

Parallel Programming in Visual C++ 2010 CTP – Using everyone’s favourite proof-of-concept fractal.

CCAN – May not be comprehensive.

outofprint.google.com

Drivers for hosted qemu installs

Demystifying The Restrict Keyword – I keep going back to this article and others on the site.

Universal design pattern

New Cell SDK from IBM – Not that I’ve looked in depth at it, but always good to see progress (does appear to have interesting new features in spu-gcc)

Learn you a Haskell – For great good, indeed.

Baffling intro animation notwithstanding – I shall have one of these.

Second OLPC deployment in Africa. (Photo: Daniel Drake)

C++ meets technical drawing – Exquisite. Terrifying.

Open source church projection software? – Looks intriguing. Regardless of its usefulness (of which I cannot yet speak), I like their heart. Also, looks like it might work with wine.

Housing from shipping containers – A container wine cellar is still on my to-do list.

The sins of the fathers, visited upon their children..

The Bishop of Tasmania’s take on Lambeth 2008 – An interesting and thorough overview, with further comment and linkage here.

Tumblelog – “a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging.”

Anarchaia is now trivium – “In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” A fantastic aggregation. (and one of the places from where I am shamelessly stealing)

Email protocol obsoletion – Diffs between RFCs 2821 and 2822 with 5321 and 5322. Something changed on the internet!

Tripod. In Burnie! – I should pay more attention to local ‘cultural’ events.

LCA shedule is up – Some of the talks that interest me collide… but I’m really looking forward to the event.

From the makers of “Look Around You” – “… why would I want to even SPEAK to an octopus?”