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Cell Broadband Engine technology


Updated 8 May 2008
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Cell Broadband Engine technology

The Cell Broadband Engine™ is a breakthrough microprocessor with unique capabilities for applications requiring video, 3D graphics, or high-performance computation for imaging, security, visualization, health care, surveillance, and more. Based on the Power Architecture™, a choreographed high-bandwidth memory architecture, and multicore technology, the Cell Broadband Engine has been shown to accelerate some algorithms to many times the speed of a traditional microprocessor.

Cell Broadband Engine resource center:

The developerWorks® Cell Broadband Engine™ Resource Center provides resource for all things related to Cell Broadband Engine, including articles on the technology, daily news on the processor, and links to CBEA forums.

Related technologies here at alphaWorks®:

IBM® Assembly Visualizer for Cell Broadband Engine
A tool that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing the static analysis results of a Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) program and that enables safe, interactive hand-tuning of assembly.

IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor
A full-system simulation infrastructure and tools for the Cell Broadband Engine processor.

Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine
A proof-of-technology visual demonstration of the graphics power of the Cell Broadband Engine for realistic real-time animation on the Playstation 3 or QS21 platforms.

IBM Dynamic Application Virtualization
A technology that enables computationally-intensive applications to take advantage of accelerated libraries on remote, back-end systems (including Cell Broadband Engine), reducing time to deployment and disruption to business.

Visual Performance Analyzer
An Eclipse-based visual performance toolkit; the Trace Analyzer component visualizes Cell Broadband Engine traces.


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Learning resources
developerWorks Cell Broadband Engine forums Cell Broadband Engine at IBM Research
Cell Broadband Engine architecture IBM Semiconductor Solutions: Cell Broadband Engine documentation
Linux on Cell Broadband Engine-based Sxystems: Barcelona Supercomputing Center Power.org
IBM Journal of Research and Development
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developerWorks Cell Broadband Engine resource center

Cell BE forum


Top downloads

IBM Dynamic Application Virtualization

IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor

Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine

IBM Assembly Visualizer for Cell Broadband Engine


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