The IBM Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a multicore processor with a PowerPC host processor (PPE) and 8 synergic processor engines (SPEs). The Cell BE architecture is designed to im...
Tamer F. Rabie, Hashir Karim Kidwai, Fadi N. Sibai
It is known that temperature gradients and thermal hotspots affect the reliability of microprocessors. Temperature is also an important constraint when maximizing the performance...
Vinay Hanumaiah, Ravishankar Rao, Sarma B. K. Vrud...
With the emergence of multicore network processors in support of high-performance computing and networking applications, power consumption has become a problem of increasing signi...
Modern multicore processors, such as the Cell Broadband Engine, achieve high performance by equipping accelerator cores with small “scratchpad” memories. The price for increase...
Alastair F. Donaldson, Daniel Kroening, Philipp R&...