PS3 Cell Processor Security Architecture

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 25, 2006 @06:13AM from the what's-this-little-shiny-thing-do dept.

hoyhoy writes "IBM Developerworks is discussing the PS3 Cell Processor Security Architecture today on Developerworks. It details the hardware level security for isolating processes that exists in the Cell processor's architecture." From the article: "The architecture's main strength is its ability to allow an application to protect itself using the hardware security features instead of the conventional method of solely relying on the operating system or other supervisory software for protection. Therefore, if the operating system is compromised by an attack, the hardware security features can still protect the application and its valuable data. As an analogy, consider the protection the supervisory software provides as the castle's moat and the Cell BE security hardware features as the locked safe inside the castle."

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Cell Home Workstations by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-25 06:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Being one of the lucky ones who gets to work on a Cell system, it is becoming painful to come home to my x86 machine that seemed to powerful just a few months ago.

I really hope Sony goes all the way with the stuff Linux desktop stuff they are working on for the PS3. Linux, plus security features like these set forth in the article, make me want a Cell workstation running Linux at home desperately.

If you are any type of game/graphics/engineering/media engineer you want one of these Cell systems NOW.