Charm++ parallel programming system

[Tilo Eissler <eissler AT in.tum.de>]

Hallo!

I'm currently writing a thesis on parallel programming concepts on the 
Cell BE and I'm interessted in trying out  Charm++ and the OffloadAPI. 
I've downloaded the latest nightly build. While trying to build Charm++ 
for the Cell processor, some questions occured:

First, the OffloadAPI is available only in the nightly build at the 
moment, right? Will there be a Charm release containing the OffloadAPI 
in the near future?

Second I would like to know if I need native Cell hardware to use the 
OffloadAPI or if it is possible to use it with the Cell simulator 
provided by IBM?

Third, is there somewhere a tutorial available how to build Charm++ for 
the Cell processor?
I've tried "./build charm++ net-linux-cell" but I got an error:
...
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/charm/net-linux-cell/tmp'
../bin/charmc   -c -I. convcore.c
convcore.c:2454:45: error: macro "InitOffloadAPI" passed 3 arguments, 
but takes just 1
Fatal Error by charmc in directory /tmp/charm/net-linux-cell/tmp
...

Thank you for your efforts!

Best regards

Tilo