An Open Source Environment for Cell Broadband Engine System Software

  • Authors:
  • Michael Gschwind;David Erb;Sid Manning;Mark Nutter

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;IBM Austin;IBM Austin;IBM Austin

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The Cell Broadband Engine provides the first implementation of a chip multiprocessor with a significant number of general-purpose programmable cores targeting a broad set of workloads. Open source software played a critical role in the development of the Cell software stack.