Programming ALF for Cell BE

This section describes information specific to programming ALF for Cell BE.

For installation information, refer to the SDK for Multicore Acceleration Version 3.0 Installation Guide.

• Implementation overview
  ALF for Cell BE is an implementation of the ALF API specification for the Cell BE processor. In this implementation, the PPEs serve as the hosts, the SPEs act as accelerators. For SDK 3.0, both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations are provided for this platform.
• Installing and configuring ALF
  The ALF for Cell BE library should be installed as a component of the Cell BE SDK 3.0.
• Building an application
  
• Running an application
  The following steps describe how to run an ALF application.
• Linking to the correct library
  Make sure that ALF applications are linked with the correct library for the ALF implementation intended (CBEA or Hybrid-x86).
• Optimizing ALF applications
  
• Platform-specific constraints for the ALF implementation on Cell BE architecture
  This section describes constraints that apply when you program ALF for Cell BE.