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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:As Usual... by Durinthal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not to feed the troll or anything, but I haven't. And I do read digg regularly. Maybe I've missed something in the half-dozen different search terms I've tried (and feel free to correct me if I have), but it seems that this comment is nothing but troll. And honestly, even if it was on digg a week ago or whatever.. Why? Do you really hate /. so much that you take time from your day to make such caustic (and useless) posts?

  2. Does it run Windows? by plusser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The problem will be for much of the IT industry is that those making the decisions would ask only one question:

        Does it Run Windows?

    If the answer is no that the manager will say something like:

        "I don't care if the processor is the most powerful ever developed, costs next to nothing to produce and will allow us to build a powerful computer the size of of pea. If it doesn't run Windows, then I'm not interested".

    And that sums up the total IT knowledge of that manager.