Title :
Application Acceleration with the Cell Broadband Engine
Author :
Shi, Guochun ; Kindratenko, Volodymyr ; Pratas, Frederico ; Trancoso, Pedro ; Gschwind, Michael
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;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2010.4
