Application Acceleration with the Cell Broadband Engine

The Cell Broadband Engine is a heterogeneous chip multiprocessor that combines a PowerPC processor core with eight single-instruction multiple-data accelerator cores and delivers high performance on many computationally intensive codes.

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Published inComputing in science & engineering Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 76 - 81
Main Authors Shi, Guochun, Kindratenko, Volodymyr, Pratas, Frederico, Trancoso, Pedro, Gschwind, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.01.2010
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Acceleration
Accelerators
Bandwidth
Broadband
Cell Broadband Engine
chip architecture
chip multiprocessing
Chips
Computation
compute-intensive processing
Computer aided instruction
Computer architecture
Concurrent computing
data-intensive application architectures
Engines
High performance computing
Microprocessors
Multiprocessor
Power system interconnection
PowerXCell 8i processor
Process design
Programming profession
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Summary:The Cell Broadband Engine is a heterogeneous chip multiprocessor that combines a PowerPC processor core with eight single-instruction multiple-data accelerator cores and delivers high performance on many computationally intensive codes.
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ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X
DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2010.4