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The Next Generation in Performance - serious computing on gaming hardware

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Over the past few months we have been working on putting the eHiTS docking program on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell B.E.). Many of you may not have heard of Cell B.E. but you have no doubt heard of Sony’s PS3s. The PS3 uses the Cell B.E. chips to perform very advanced graphical computations mainly for gaming applications. However, the Cell B.E. is one of the most advanced chips on the market and when programmed correctly can offer amazing performance improvements over traditional Intel / AMD processors. SimBioSys is proud that eHiTS is the first major docking program to take advantage of this new advance in computational power, with projected speed-ups of over 40x.
The parallel nature of the Cell B.E. combined with its ability to do vector calculations makes the processor ideal for correctly ported high performance computing applications. It is important to note that getting the full performance out of the the Cell B.E. architecture takes very different programming skills than traditional Intel / AMD processors. SimBioSys has worked closely with IBM and others in the Cell B.E. community to make sure we capitalize on that power. Currently there is a working eHiTS prototype on the Cell B.E. architecture with a planned release in the second quarter of 2008. For more information on Cell B.E. and eHiTS please see the whitepaper found:

http://www.simbiosys.ca/science/white_papers/eHiTS_on_the_Cell.pdf
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