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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:Has nothing to do with Broadband by ScottCooperDotNet · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Simply because IBM mentions broadband doesn't mean it has anything to do with system-to-system data transmission. This sounds a bit like Intel's marketing of "shiny new Pentiums make the Internet faster."

    "The Pentium III will make the Internet a much more consumer-friendly environment," says Jami Dover, Intel's marketing vice president. Surfing today, Dover maintains, is a limited experience because data-transfer rates over ordinary telephone lines do not allow for high-quality audio, video and 3D graphics. "You take people raised on TV and show them a flat, text [Web] page," says Dover. "It's quite a juxtaposition." I guess Intel was hoping the world could go through a phone line with enough compression.

    To us this is a nitpick, to the general public this is more confusion in a jargon filled marketplace.