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Sony Group, Toshiba and IBM Renew Cell Broadband Engine
(TM) Center of Competence with Georgia Tech
Upcoming Workshop to Focus on Developing Commercial Applications and
Productivity Software for Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) Processor
Last update: 12:01 a.m. EDT July 9, 2008
ATLANTA, Jul 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The
Georgia Tech College of Computing today announced
the renewal of the Sony Corporation/Sony Computer
Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group)-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence (STI
Center), based on Georgia Tech's exceptional work in multiple areas of research
and evangelism for the Cell Broadband Engine(TM) (Cell/B.E.) technology.
Through Georgia Tech's efforts, the STI Center has been responsible for creating
and disseminating software optimized for Cell/B.E. systems, and for performing
research on the design of Cell/B.E. systems, algorithms and applications. In
conjunction with this renewal of the STI Center, Georgia Tech is announcing a
series of new research projects that are being undertaken at the center to
develop applications and productivity tools based on the Cell/B.E.
microprocessor.
Georgia Tech also announced today that it will host the Second Annual Cell/B.E.
Processor Workshop from July 10-11, 2008, focusing on software, tools and
applications for the Cell/B.E. processor, including high performance computing
applications and programmability tools. The two-day workshop is sponsored by
Sony Group, Toshiba and IBM and will be held at the Klaus Advanced
Computing Building on Georgia Tech's campus. More information on the
workshop may be found at http:/sti.cc.gatech.edu/.
The STI Center of Competence was created at Georgia Tech to test the
boundaries and demonstrate the extreme performance of the Cell/B.E.
architecture. "Today, we are carrying out the vision we always intended - to
generate breakthrough innovations using Cell/B.E. technologies working hand-inhand with researchers at Sony Group, Toshiba and IBM," said David A. Bader,
professor and executive director of High-Performance Computing in the Georgia
Tech College of Computing. "We are very encouraged that our initial research
results are showing the multi-faceted applicability of this technology."
One of the key research challenges that the collaborators will address through
continued applied research is the use of Cell/B.E. technology to better monitor an
aircraft's structural safety in commercial and military airplanes. Researchers will
develop Cell/B.E. based data-processing software that will expeditiously and
accurately monitor structural components in flight by measuring and recording an
aircraft's vibrations through a distributed network of sensors. Although a
commercial signal processing application for airplanes is a long term plan,
researchers are working to develop a solid software foundation in the labs.
"IBM has invested in a strategy that applies the use of technology to solve grand
challenges with our trusted university partners," said Jai Menon, IBM Fellow, vice
president, Technical Strategy and University Relations. "In our collaboration with
Georgia Tech, we are working together to better predict airline mechanical
failures to make flying in airlines safer for passengers like you and me."
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The other joint research projects in productivity enhancements include:
-- A useful signal processing kernel needed for oil and gas exploration and
seismic monitoring;
-- Data compression, used for file compression or reducing the size of messages
sent between computers required in multiple industries;
-- Financial services applications for consolidated debt optimization, as well as
European and American options pricing;
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-- Encryption libraries for securing communications for privacy;
-- High-speed multimedia codecs, such as MPEG2 and JPEG2000 encoders and
decoders;
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-- Bioinformatics, such as DNA sequence alignment and comparison;
-- Software productivity enhancement tools that involve a cross-platform profiler,
performance estimation and tuning system with IDE type features.
-- Single-source automatic translator for generating PPU and SPU codes from a
monolithic C/C++ application.
"We anticipate a paradigm shift in computing and our collaboration with the
Georgia Tech College of Computing will create innovative applications for
Cell/B.E. processors," said Yasu Yokote, general manager, CELL Application
Development Center, Sony Corporation. "For a year STI Center created at
Georgia Tech, they created software productivity enhancement tools, which are
valuable for moving legacy code bases to CELL/B.E. and will generate
tremendous value to all Cell-based products."
"Within a year of the opening of the Center of Competence at Georgia Tech,
researchers are already generating outstanding results on Cell/B.E.," said Mitsuo
Saito, Chief Fellow, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. "The future
will see growing demand for multi-core processor applications, and we are
delighted that the Center is playing a key role in anticipating and responding to
such demand."
About the Georgia Tech College of Computing
The Georgia Tech College of Computing is a national leader in the research and
creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific
progress. With its graduate program ranked 9th nationally by U.S. News and
World Report, the College's unconventional approach to education is pioneering
the new era of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer
science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human
centered solutions. For more information about the College of Computing, its
academic divisions and research centers, please visit http://www.cc.gatech.edu.
About the Cell Broadband Engine
The revolutionary Cell/B.E. processor is a breakthrough design featuring a
central processing core, based on IBM's industry leading Power Architecture(TM)
technology, and eight synergistic processors. Cell/B.E. "supercharges"
computation-intensive applications, offering fast performance for computer
entertainment and handhelds, virtual-reality, wireless downloads, real-time video
chat, interactive TV shows and other "image-hungry" computing environments.
The processor was created through a collaboration between Sony Group,
Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) and IBM.
All company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective companies. Cell Broadband Engine is a trademark
of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
SOURCE: Georgia Tech College of Computing
Georgia Tech College of Computing
Stefany Wilson, 404-312-6620
stefany@cc.gatech.edu
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