In May 2008, the Cell microprocessor-based IBM Roadrunner supercomputer became the first TOP500 LINPACK sustained 1.
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13 Facts About Cell microprocessor
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Cell microprocessor architecture includes a memory coherence architecture that emphasizes power efficiency, prioritizes bandwidth over low latency, and favors peak computational throughput over simplicity of program code.
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The Cell microprocessor was designed over a period of four years, using enhanced versions of the design tools for the POWER4 processor.
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On June 28,2005, IBM and Mercury Computer Systems announced a partnership agreement to build Cell microprocessor-based computer systems for embedded applications such as medical imaging, industrial inspection, aerospace and defense, seismic processing, and telecommunications.
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Cell Broadband Engine, or Cell as it is more commonly known, is a microprocessor intended as a hybrid of conventional desktop processors and more specialized high-performance processors, such as the NVIDIA and ATI graphics-processors.
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One of the major design decisions in the architecture of Cell microprocessor is the use of DMAs as a central means of intra-chip data transfer, with a view to enabling maximal asynchrony and concurrency in data processing inside a chip.
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Beside the QS22 and supercomputers, the PowerXCell microprocessor processor is available as an accelerator on a PCI Express card and is used as the core processor in the QPACE project.
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Since the PowerXCell microprocessor 8i removed the RAMBUS memory interface, and added significantly larger DDR2 interfaces and enhanced SPEs, the chip layout had to be reworked, which resulted in both larger chip die and packaging.
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The Cell microprocessor is designed to compensate for this with compiler assistance, in which prepare-to-branch instructions are created.
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Some companies, such as Leadtek, have released PCI-E cards based upon the Cell to allow for "faster than real time" transcoding of H 264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video.
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In November 2007, Fixstars Corporation released the new "CVCell microprocessor" module aiming to accelerate several important OpenCV APIs for Cell microprocessor.
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