mein herz so weiss
das isser.
der prozessor der ps3. sony, toshiba und ibm haben das herz der ps3, den cell chip gerade der öffentlichkeit präsentiert.
die wichtigsten dinge:
- cell hat einen hardwareseitigen schutz vor software hacking, sprich das hacken und kopieren (und alles andere denkbar möglich illegale) von games wird von der hardware erschwert (!)
- das ding ist verdammt schnell
- und wird verdammt heiss (sprich muss gut gekühlt werden…)
- CELL is a breakthrough in architectural design
featuring 8 Synergistic Processing Units (SPU) with Power-based core, with top clock speeds exceeding 4 GHz (as measured during initial laboratory testing) - Cell is OS neutral
supporting multiple operating systems simultaneously
Cell is a multi-core chip comprising 8 SPUs and a 64-bit Power processor core capable of massive floating point processing
Special circuit techniques, rules for modularity and reuse, customized clocking structures and unique power and thermal management concepts were applied to optimize the design - CELL Is Multi-Core Architecture
Contains 8 SPUs each containing a 128 entry 128-bit register file and 256 KB Local Store Contains 64-bit Power Architecture with VMX that is a dual thread SMT design
views system memory as a 10-way coherent threaded machine 2.5MB of on chip memory (512 KB L2 and 8 * 256 KB)
234 million transistors
Prototype die size of 221mm
Frabricanted with 90nm SOI process technology
Cell is a modular architecture and floating point calculation capabilities can be adjusted by increasing or reducing the number of SPUs - CELL Is a Broadband Architecture
Compatible with 64b Power Architecture
SPU is a RISC architecture with SIMD organization and Local Store
128+ concurrent transactions to memory per processor
High speed internal element interconnect bus performing at 96B/cycle - CELL Is a Real-Time Architecture
Resource allocation (for bandwidth management)
Locking caches (via replacement management tables)
Virtualization support with real-time response characteristics across multiple operating systems running simultaneously - CELL Is Security-Enabled Architecture
SPUs dynamically configurable as secure processors for flexible security programming - CELL Is a Confluence of New Technologies
Virtualization techniques to support conventional and real-time applications
Autonomic power management features
Resource management for real-time human-interaction
Smart memory flow controllers (DMA) to sustain bandwidth
nyck - 8. Feb, 12:50
!!!TOLL!!!