I am an undergraduate student from India. I want to port Octave to CELL Processor(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor).
As you might be aware of, the CELL processor has 8 vector co
processors. Hence, a huge amount of parallelism can be achieved. Also,
since this particular processor is highly optimised for Single
Precision Floating Point and Integer Operations, it can be used by
octave to achieve higher number crunching speed. Certain algorithms
like FFT, Matrix Multiplication etc can be easily parallelized and
vectorized. Hence i feel that Octave will gain huge advantage by
porting it to CELL.
If you are happy with this idea, please tell me where to start and how to go about it.