Armonk,
NY, November
9, 2005 - IBM,
Sony Corporation
and Sony Computer
Entertainment
Inc., (Sony
and SCEI together
referred to
as "Sony
Group")
today announced
the release
of new software
components and
documentation
achieved through
the STI joint
project - including
extensions to
Linux™
that support
Cell/B.E. programming
- for the groundbreaking
Cell Broadband Engine™
Architecture
(CBEA) technology.
These resources
are jointly
located on developerWorks
(www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell),
IBM's forum
for developers
and the University
of Barcelona
Supercomputing
Center (http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/)
and will also
be published
through this
site (http://cell.scei.co.jp/).
(press
release 2005/11/10)
By opening up
a wide set of
technical specifications
and components
to software
developers,
business partners,
academic and
research organizations,
and potential
customers, SCEI,
Sony, Toshiba
and IBM continue
their work to
aggressively
stimulate the
creation of
Cell-based applications.
The goal: establish
a thriving community
of interest
and innovation
around Cell/B.E.,
allowing all
interested parties
to rapidly evaluate
and utilize
Cell/B.E. technology. |
Cell Broadband Engine™ SUMMARY
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Cell/B.E.
is Multi-Core
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Contains 64-bit PowerPC Architecture™
Contains 8 Synergistic Processor Elements (SPE) |
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Cell/B.E.
is a Flexible
Architecture |
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Multi-OS support (including Linux) with Virtualization technology
Path for OS, legacy apps, and software development |
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Cell/B.E.
is a Broadband
Architecture |
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SPE is RISC architecture with SIMD organization and Local Store
128+ concurrent transactions to memory per processor |
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Cell/B.E.
is a Real-Time
Architecture |
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Resource allocation (for Bandwidth Management)
Locking Caches (via Replacement Management Tables) |
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Cell/B.E.
is a Security
Enabled Architecture |
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Isolatable SPE for flexible security programming |
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Earlier this year, SCEI announced that the Cell Broadband Engine™ chip will serve as the heart of PLAYSTATION®3, the company's highly anticipated, next generation computer entertainment system.
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