High performance computing on Cell B.E. processors

摘要

High performance computing aims at maximizingrnthe performance of grand challenge problems such asrnprotein folding and accurate real time weather prediction.rnWhere in the past, performance improvementsrnwere obtained by aggressive frequency scaling usingrnmicroarchitecture and manufacturing techniques,rntechnology limits require future performance improvementsrnbe obtained from exploiting parallelism with arnmulti-core design approach. The Cell Broadband Enginernis an exciting new execution platform answeringrnthis design challenge for compute-intensive applicationsrnthat reflects both the requirements of future computationalrnworkloads and manufacturing constraints.rnThe Cell B.E. is a heterogeneous chip multiprocessorrnarchitecture with compute accelerators achieving in excessrnof 200 GFlop per chip.