• DocumentCode
    1375402
  • Title

    Application Acceleration with the Cell Broadband Engine

  • Author

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

  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    76
  • Lastpage
    81
  • 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.
  • Keywords
    logic design; microprocessor chips; Cell Broadband Engine; PowerPC processor core; computationally intensive codes; heterogeneous chip multiprocessor; single-instruction multiple-data accelerator cores; Acceleration; Bandwidth; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Engines; High performance computing; Power system interconnection; Process design; Programming profession; Cell Broadband Engine; PowerXCell 8i processor; chip architecture; chip multiprocessing; compute-intensive processing; data-intensive application architectures;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computing in Science & Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1521-9615
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSE.2010.4
  • Filename
    5372183
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1375402