Cell Broadband Engine

IBM

• The Cell project at IBM
• Cell programming projects
• IBM Cell reference documentation
• IBM Cell SDK Downloads

Articles

• IEEE Search on Cell Processor
• External papers from the IBM web site

General/Architecture

• > (2.1) D.C. Pham, T. Aipperspach, D. Boerstler, M. Bolliger, R. Chaudhry, D. Cox, P. Harvey, P.M. Harvey, H.P. Hofstee, C. Johns, J. Kahle, A. Kameyama, J. Keaty, Y. Masubuchi, M. Pham, J. Pille, S. Posluszny, M. Riley, D.L. Stasiak, M. Suzuoki, O. Takahashi, J. Warnock, S. Weitzel, D. Wendel, K. Yazawa, Overview of the architecture, circuit design, and physical implementation of a first-generation cell processor, Technol. Group, IBM Syst., Austin, TX, USA, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Volume: 41 , Issue: 1, pp. 179-196, Jan. 2006 (originally forwarded by Dr. Chatha)
• CODES+ISSS 2007 Tutorial summary on Cell Processor
• Kahle, J., The Cell Processor Architecture, IBM, MICRO-38. 38th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 12-16 Nov. 2005
• M. Day, P. Hofstee, Hardware and software architectures for the CELL processor, IBM Systems&Technology Group, Austin, TX, Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, CODES+ISSS, Sept. 2005
• D. Stasiak, R. Chaudhry, D. Cox, S. Posluszny, J. Warnock, S. Weitzel, D. Wendel, M. Wang, Cell processor low-power design methodology Syst. & Technol. Group, IBM Corp., Austin, TX, USA, Micro, IEEE, Volume: 25 , Issue: 6 pp. 71-78, Nov.-Dec. 2005
• Tom Krazit, IBM, Sony, Toshiba Unveil Nine-Core Cell Processor, IDG News Service, February 07, 2005

-"Cell will probably consume around 30 watts of power, similar to the Emotion Engine processor in the PlayStation 2"

• A. E. Eichenberger, K. O’Brien, K. O’Brien, P. Wu, T. Chen, Pe. H. Oden, D. A. Prener, J. C. Shepherd, B. So, Z. Sura, A. Wang, T. Zhang, P. Zhao, M. Gschwind, "Optimizing Compiler for a CELL Processor", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, 2005

High Performance Computing Application

• > (2.2) A. Buttari, P. Luszczek, J. Kurzak, J. Dongarra, G. Bosilca, A Rough Guide to Scientific Computing On the PlayStation 3, Technical Report UT-CS-07-595, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee Knoxville, May 11, 2007
• "Researchers Analyze HPC Potential of Cell Processor", HPC Wire, May 2006

-S. Williams, J. Shalf, L. Oliker, S. Kamil, P. Husbands, K. Yelick, "The Potential of the Cell Processor for Scientific Computing", ACM, May 2006

Media Application

• [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~samw/projects/cell/CF06.pdf L. Liu, Q. Liu, A. Natsev, K. A. Ross, J. R. Smith, A. L. Varbanescu, "Digital Media Indexing on the Cell Processor",

Real Time Application

• S. Maeda, S. Asano, T. Shimada, K. Awazu, H. Tago, A real-time software platform for the Cell processor, Toshiba Corp., Japan, Micro, IEEE, Volume: 25 , Issue: 5, pp. 20-29, Sept.-Oct. 2005
• Seiji Maeda, Sigehiro Asano, Tomofumi Shimada, Koichi Awazu, Haruyuki Tago, "A Real-Time Software Platform for the Cell Processor", IEEE, 2005