Last Friday, October 24th, IBM released the IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration Version 3.1 (a.k.a Cell SDK 3.1) with support to two different Linux® distributions (RHEL 5.2 and Fedora 9) and in three different package bundles: Product, Developer, and Extras.

As reported here,  about 1 month ago I was replaced to the Cell IDE project, and the IDE is one of the great number of SDK’s packages.

After 46 days away, I returned yesterday to work. On August, 2nd I broke my left arm playing soccer at the IBM Cup and I could not work.

During this time offline, I was moved to the Cell IDE project. Cell IDE is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that integrate the Cell Broadband Engine tool chain and enable rapid building of Cell Broadband Engine applications, and it is included in the IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration.

This change is good for me, once in my master’s project I’m working with transactional memories applied to the Cell processor and other multicore processors. I guess this new project gives me a lot of opportunity and changes to grow up.