[ydl-gen] Some preliminary details of "enhanced Cell"

Derick Centeno aguilarojo at verizon.net
Sat Apr 21 04:55:12 MDT 2007


Thanks Warren.  This is very exciting.

Warren Nagourney wrote:
> Although it hasn't been officially announced yet, the new version of 
> the cell was the subject of a presentation by IBM at the Cool Chips X 
> meeting in Japan. It is about what one would expect - they fixed the 
> things needing fixing and left the rest pretty much untouched. Thus, 
> the DP floating performance was vastly improved, IEEE FP conformance 
> was enhanced and the memory capacity was increased to 16 Gb (using 
> DDR2 but maintaining the 25 GB/s bandwidth). Claimed DP performance is 
> 102 GFLOPS max. The chip is 65 nm and dissipates 100 W at 3.2 GHz (a 
> slight improvement) and is slightly more complicated. Some more 
> details at:
>
> http://www.ps3coderz.com/
>
> Warren Nagourney
>
>
> On Mar 20, 2007, at 7:53 AM, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
>
>> Here's the next one in the series.  Here, we switch from assembly 
>> language to C/C++.
>>
>> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-linuxps3-5/
>>
>> Jon
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