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Unleashing the Power of the Cell Broadband Engine

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wish-my-brain-had-nine-cores dept.

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."

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  1. Re:New Me by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I just want to draw a flowchart and have the compiler and realtime scheduler distribute processes and data among the hardware resources. If we are getting a new architecture and new "programming models", and therefore new compilers and kernels, how about a new IDE paradigm."

    Bingo, sir.

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    "Derp de derp."
  2. 20 core die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Amazing progress. So with 20 cores on a single die, we can play D&D in real time?

    It's Saturday night and I'm all alone here, cut me some slack...

  3. yea but by rrosales · · Score: 2, Funny

    can it do infinite loops in 5 seconds?