Programming ALF for Hybrid-x86

This section describes information specific to programming ALF for Hybrid-x86

• Implementation overview
  ALF for Hybrid-x86 is an implementation of the ALF API specification in a system configuration with an Opteron x86_64 system connected to one or more Cell BE processors. In this implementation, the Opteron system serves as the host, the SPEs on the Cell BE BladeCenters act as accelerators, and the PPEs on the Cell BE processors act as facilitators only. From the ALF application programmer’s perspective, the application interaction, as defined by the ALF API, is between the Hybrid-x86 host and the SPE accelerators.
• Installing and configuring ALF
  The ALF for Hybrid-x86 library should be installed as a component of the 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 the Hybrid-x86 architecture
  This section describes constraints that apply when you program ALF for Hybrid-x86.