Application acceleration with the cell broadband engine

Guochun Shi; Volodymyr Kindratenko; Frederico Pratas; Pedro Trancoso; Michael Gschwind

doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.4

Application acceleration with the cell broadband engine

Guochun Shi, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Frederico Pratas, Pedro Trancoso, Michael Gschwind

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5372183
Pages (from-to)	76-81
Number of pages	6
Journal	Computing in Science and Engineering
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.4
State	Published - Jan 2010

Keywords

Cell Broadband Engine
Chip architecture
Chip multiprocessing
Compute-intensive processing
Data-intensive application architectures
PowerXCell 8i processor

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Computer Science(all)
Engineering(all)

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