HOWTO install CELL Environment in Gentoo
Gentoo, HPC April 19th, 2007
The CELL BE SDK developed by IBM and Barcelona Supercomputing Center targets RedHat Fedora Core 6 host system. Using the rpm2targz and rpm, we can also install the CELL SDK in Gentoo Linux as well.
Dependency and Tools
Since I don’t want to use RPM as my package management, that is the motivation for me to use Gentoo, I need to resolve the dependencies manually, the following package are installed to meet the dependency requirement:
gcc make perl rsync flex byacc are in the base system.
To extract rpm, we also need to install rpm2targz and rpm:
Download the RPMs
The CELL SDK files are scattered in AlphaWorks and Bsc:
Download the CELLSDK21.iso from AlphaWorks, you might need to register before access.
Download all the x86-based file from Bsc, to make your life easier, you could use this script:
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-binutils-2.17.50-8.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-gcc-4.1.1-10.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-gcc-c++-4.1.1-10.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-gcc-fortran-4.1.1-10.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-gdb-6.6-15.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-gcc-debuginfo-4.1.1-10.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-gdb-debuginfo-6.6-15.i686.rpm
# spu
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/spu-binutils-2.17.50-8.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/spu-gcc-4.1.1-9.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/spu-gcc-c++-4.1.1-9.i686.rpm
hwget -c ttp://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/spu-gdb-6.6-12.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/spu-newlib-1.15.0-7.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/spu-gcc-debuginfo-4.1.1-9.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/spu-gdb-debuginfo-6.6-12.i686.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-sysroot-fc6-1.noarch.rpm
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-sysroot64-fc6-1.noarch.rpm
# sysroot
wget -c http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/sysroot_image-2.1-8.noarch.rpm
Extract the RPMs
We need to convert all RPMs to tar, then untar it in the root of directory:
for x in /mnt/loop/software/*i386.rpm
do
rpm2tar $x
done
for x in *.rpm
do
rpm2tar $x
done
BUILDDIR=`pwd`
cd /
for x in $BUILDDIR/*.tar
do
sudo tar xvf $x
done
It would take a few hours depending on your network bandwidth. Unfortunately, the sysroot_image-2.1-8.noarch.rpm fails to covert to tar, using rpm2cpio as the rescure:
Test Drive
../run_gui
You MUST go to the specified path where .systemsim.tcl residents. Wait for the GUI window launches, then Click Go, if nothing is wrong, the Linux kernel is launched, and the sysroot_image is mapped as the guest OS system.
Warnning: The CELL simulator is extremely computing-extensive, you could click Stop to pause the simulator when it is idle.
Cleanup
We can unmerge the rpm right now if you want to a crusty system.
I have followed your directions, but my PATH has not been updated to point to the ppu-* and spu-* binaries (like elf, gcc, etc).
Can you please let me know how the “housekeeping” scripts are run?
typo:
sudo rpm2cpio sysroot_image-2.1-8.noarch.rpm | cpio -i –-make-directories