Concept Proposal

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Concept Proposal
Utilization of a Cell Processor in the Evaluation
of Parallelization on Typical Sequential
Algorithms
Team 50 Michael Krueger, Ryan Lease, Frank
Jones, Andrew Hattrup Sponsor Cody Tews,
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory
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Customer motivation

• AES encryption/decryption in sequential and
  parallel
• Encryption and parallelization research
• Performance analysis of the Core processor
  

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Product Solution Highlights

• AES encryption/decryption in sequential and
  parallel
• Possible other sequential algorithms
  parallelized
• Benchmarking software
• Core processor research
• Software Documentation

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Use Cases

• Command Line interface
• Standard input and output files
• Benchmarking runs
• Tie in to GNU Plot (not confirmed)

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Architectural Approach
Standard Input
Command Line Interface
Benchmarking Suite
Standard Output
GNU Plot ?
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Architectural Approach
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Testing Strategy

• Design Specifications
• Incremental Programming
• Benchmarking

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Project Schedule

• 9-13-07 Concept Proposal
• 9-27-07 Single Threaded Release w/
  benchmarks
• 10-25-07 Parallel Release w/ benchmarks
• 11-8-07 Optimized Parallel Release w/
  benchmarks
• 11-15-07 Beta Release
• 12-6-07 Final Release

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Risk Analysis

• Technical Problems
• Non-technical Problems
• PlayStation 3 Problems

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Questions?