Unleashing the Power of the Cell Broadband Engine 136
An anonymous reader writes "IBM DeveloperWorks is running a paper from the MPR Fall Processor Forum 2005 explores programming models for the Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) Processor, from the simple to the progressively more advanced. With nine cores on a single die, programming for the CBE is like programming for no processor you've ever met before."
Cell architecture (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Has nothing to do with Broadband (Score:3, Informative)
Oh yeah. If you read their web page [ibm.com] they also mention the Cell processor will be able to handle broadband rich media applications and streaming content:
The first-generation Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor is a multi-core chip comprised of a 64-bit Power Architecture processor core and eight synergistic processor cores, capable of massive floating point processing, optimized for compute-intensive workloads and broadband rich media applications.
Re:PS3 Suggestion (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Has nothing to do with Broadband (Score:1, Informative)
Mambo development (Score:5, Informative)
IBM will also be releasing Cell-based Blade servers next year, so pick one up if you're serious about development!
MOD PARENT DOWN (Score:5, Informative)
Re:HLL like Java & Smalltalk have two faults (Score:3, Informative)
Re:PS3 Suggestion (Score:2, Informative)
Frankly, I don't see why they couldn't just use flash memory instead...everyone's doing it these days.