Synergistic Processing in Cell's Multicore Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Michael Gschwind;H. Peter Hofstee;Brian Flachs;Martin Hopkins;Yukio Watanabe;Takeshi Yamazaki

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM;IBM;IBM;IBM;Toshiba;Sony Computer Entertainment

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Eight synergistic processor units enable the Cell Broadband Engine's breakthrough performance. The SPU architecture implements a novel, pervasively data-parallel architecture combining scalar and SIMD processing on a wide data path. A large number of SPUs per chip provide high thread-level parallelism.