Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine

A proof-of-technology visual demonstration of the graphics power of the Cell Broadband Engine for realistic real-time animation on the Playstation 3 or QS21 platforms.

Date Posted: August 29, 2007

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Platform requirements

On Sony Playstation 3:

Operating system: Yellow Dog Linux® 5.0.2
Software: One of the following:
- Cell Broadband Engine™ Software Development Kit (SDK) 2.0 or 2.1
- IBM® SDK for Multicore Acceleration 3.0

On IBM BladeCenter® QS20:

Operating system: Fedora Core Linux 6.0
Software: Cell Broadband Engine SDK 2.0 or 2.1

On IBM BladeCenter QS21:

Operating system: Fedora Linux 7.0
Software: IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration 3.0

Installation instructions

Download and install the iRT-1.0 and iRT-scene-1.0 RPMs. The application and scene data will be located in /opt/ibm/iRT. Documentation and license are located in /usr/share/doc/iRT.

For further details, please see the irt_readme.pdf file.

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Download description

Filename	File size	Description
iRT-1.0-1.ppc64.rpm	1260KB	Application file for Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine
iRT-scene-1.0-0.ppc64.rpm	20028KB	Scene data for Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine
iRT-stanford_bunny-1.0-0.ppc64.rpm	6032KB	Scene data for Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine
iRT_shaders_560p.mov	16480KB	MOV file about Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine