What Is Cell Broadband Engine?
On Grid World 2006, which is passing in Japan, the local division of company IBM represented Cell Broadband Engine - a processor developed together with the companies Sony and Toshiba. Productivity of the new processor has been evidently shown by comparison of the system equipped by Cell, and Apple PowerMac G5 with 2 GHz chip. According to the results of tests, such as, for speed of 3D rendering, it was possible for Cell Broadband Engine to show approximately better results in 35 times.
Also there has been shown the sample of a modular server on the basis of Cell Broadband Engine, though till now there is disputable a question, whether it will be offered as a standard model for a wide range of users. Meanwhile the platform tests shortage of the compatible software. For today appendices of only separate applications have been realized, such as, for example, systems of processing of a broadcasting content, medical systems, and also the meteorological and scientific problems demanding performance of significant volume of calculations.
BM has decided to show Cell on Grid World as the architecture of systems with the application of these chips is similar to the model of network calculations: "kernel" of the processor for parallel performance distributes problems among several signal processing elements. As to distribution of computing resources between the several processors, described in patent Sony 2002, current version Cell, according to comments of IBM, does not support a similar opportunity, and in further its realization depends on "the needs arising at customers".
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