Tim Wilcox, Sales Engineer for Terra Soft, described this four day event as "a unique opportunity to work with a new kind of commodity cluster for development and testing of science and engineering applications for the Cell

processor ... the end product readily migrating to the Mercury and IBM Cell systems for even higher performance. I am excited to learn how attendees of the first Hack-a-thon have grown in their Cell programming experience, and to welcome new faces."

Event participants will enjoy:

• Support from Mercury and RapidMind engineers who will answer questions and assist with code development using the Mercury MultiCore Plus Cell development libraries and RapidMind Cell compiler tools.
• Support from IBM engineers and researchers.
• Support from Terra Soft staff.
• Interactive peer-to-peer presentations and forums.
• As with the first Hack-a-thon, an inviting, creative, and open atmosphere.
• One free, raffled PS3. Must attend the Hack-a-thon and be present to win.
• A discount voucher which reduces the cost of attending the Power Architecture Developer Conference.

Programmers and cluster users of all experience are welcome. Availability is limited due to the number of available Cell systems and facility accommodations, so please register soon.

More information about the Hack-a-thon II event is available at www.hpc-consortium.net/events/200709/. Information about the Power Architecture Developer Conference can be found at http://www.power.org/devcon/07