The Cell Synergistic Processing Unit as a virtual file system (IBM developerWorks)

[Posted June 27, 2005 by cook]

IBM developerWorks presents an excerpt from LinuxTag 2005 paper entitled "The Cell processor programming model". "The Cell processor from Sony, Toshiba, and IBM® is this year's most awaited newcomer on the CPU market. It promises unprecedented performance in the consumer and workstation market by employing a radically new architecture. Built around a 64-bit PowerPC® core, multiple independent vector processors called Synergistic Processing Units (SPUs) are combined on a single microprocessor."

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