Product Release 1

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Product Release 1
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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Project Overview

• AES encryption/decryption in sequential,
  parallel block, and parallel streaming
• Encryption and parallelization investigation
• Performance analysis of the Core processor
  

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Release 1 Features

• Operational Specification
• Design Specification
• Product Usage Document
• Measurable single-threaded AES application
• Benchmark data for single-threaded
  application

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Operational Model
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Product Demonstration
The Main Menu
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Product Demonstration
Encryption / Decryption Choice Menu
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Product Demonstration
Choosing an input directory
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Product Demonstration
Choosing an output directory
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Product Demonstration
Choosing an encryption key
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Product Demonstration

• Output generates text file
• Can pull data into GNU plot or Excel document
  to graph

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Testing

• Performed testing by benchmarking test
  corpora
• Different types of files and inputs

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Benchmark Data
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Benchmark Data
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Defects
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Defects

• fopen error when trying to encrypt directories
• Non-existent directory checking
• Empty files generate spurious time data
• Invalid bash script menu argument clears screen

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CVS Statistics
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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 Streaming Parallel Release w/
  benchmarks
• 11-15-07 Beta Release
• 12-6-07 Final Release

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Product Release 2


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Risk Analysis

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

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Questions?