29-06-2010, 12:23 AM
CELL
Abstract
Abstract Cell is the code name given for a a chip. It is a multicore CPU under development by a joint venture between Sony, Toshiba, and IBM (STI). Sony has confirmed that the Cell processor will power their Playstation 3 video game console. On completion it is expected to replace the existing processors widely due to its earlier mentioned features and thus also boost the upcoming broadband network technology. It is also supposed to boost the performance of the existing electronic devices. Thus it will open a platform for new era of devices. Technical details for the Cell have not yet been released, but informed speculation indicates that one cell chip will do 1 trillion floating point operations per second, 1 TFLOP. This speed is several hundred times faster than a high-end personal computer. The fundamental idea of the CELL processor project is to give up the pursuit of single threaded performance, in favour of allocating additional hardware resources to perform parallel computations. That is, minimal resources are devoted toward the execution of single threaded workloads, so that multiple DSP-like processing elements can be added to perform more parallelizable multimedia-type computations
Abstract
Abstract Cell is the code name given for a a chip. It is a multicore CPU under development by a joint venture between Sony, Toshiba, and IBM (STI). Sony has confirmed that the Cell processor will power their Playstation 3 video game console. On completion it is expected to replace the existing processors widely due to its earlier mentioned features and thus also boost the upcoming broadband network technology. It is also supposed to boost the performance of the existing electronic devices. Thus it will open a platform for new era of devices. Technical details for the Cell have not yet been released, but informed speculation indicates that one cell chip will do 1 trillion floating point operations per second, 1 TFLOP. This speed is several hundred times faster than a high-end personal computer. The fundamental idea of the CELL processor project is to give up the pursuit of single threaded performance, in favour of allocating additional hardware resources to perform parallel computations. That is, minimal resources are devoted toward the execution of single threaded workloads, so that multiple DSP-like processing elements can be added to perform more parallelizable multimedia-type computations