Whats the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor, then?
The 64-bit Power Architecture provides the foundation on which the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) is built. CBEA-compliant processors support 32- and 64-bit Power and PowerPC applications. Cell not only supports the Power Architecture ISA, but it inherits the memory translation, protection, and SMP coherence model of mainstream 64-bit Power processors. CBEA also supports virtualization (logical partitioning), large pages, and other recent innovations in the Power architecture, making it quite easy to port an existing operating system, such as Linux®, from Power to a Cell/B.E. and leverage the Power processor core. The CBEA extends Power Architecture in several ways: • Memory flow control introduces “local storage” (or “local store memory”) and DMA transactions to move data between local storage and the system memory effective address space. • It introduces “Synergistic Processor Elements” (SPEs), an autonomous processor that stores its program and data in its associated loca
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