Or have you become an obsolete programmer? Fear not, IBM is working hard to ensure that your skillset remains viable.

Jokes aside, it’s a very interesting paper that highlights the Cell’s architecture from the point of view of code generation, which means it’s probably the most practical article on Cell programming that you’re going to find in the near term. Yes, for a long time we have been able to ignore the requirements and techniques involved in multiprocessor programming, but that time is over.

The interesting aspect of this is that for the next 5 or 10 years at least, optimizations and compiler directives for multiprocessor programming are going to be specific to each platform. At least the architectural issues are more generic.