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An Open Source Environment for Cell Broadband Engine System Software

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Michael Gschwind,

David Erb,

Sid Manning,

Mark NutterAuthors Info & Claims

Computer, Volume 40, Issue 6

Pages 37 - 47

https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2007.192

Published: 01 June 2007 Publication History

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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.

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An Open Source Environment for Cell Broadband Engine System Software
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Parallel architectures
      1. Multiple instruction, multiple data
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Interoperability

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