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Wednesday, Nov 15 @ 18:20 PST
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today
announced its designation as the first
Sony-Toshiba-IBM (STI) Center of Competence
focused on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE)
microprocessor. IBM® Corp., Sony Corporation and
Toshiba Corporation selected to partner with the
College of Computing at Georgia Tech to build a
community of programmers and broaden industry
support for the Cell BE processor.
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The revolutionary Cell BE processor is a
breakthrough design featuring a central processing
core, based on IBM's industry leading Power
Architecture technology, and eight synergistic
processors. Cell BE "supercharges"
compute-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 groundbreaking Cell BE processor appears in
products such as Sony Computer Entertainment’s
PLAYSTATION3, Toshiba’s Cell Reference Set, a
development tool for Cell products, and already is
included in the IBM BladeCenter QS20, or “Cell
Blade”, as well as through joint collaboration with
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., targeted at
aerospace and defense, semiconductor, medical
imaging, and other markets.
“The College of Computing at Georgia Tech firmly
believes that the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Cell BE
processor represents the future of computing using
heterogeneous multi-core processors, and we are
pleased to work with three leading technology
companies in a broad collaboration that will
demonstrate the extreme performance of Cell,”
said David A. Bader, Associate Professor and
Executive Director of High-Performance Computing
in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. “By
supporting the growth of the industry-changing Cell
BE processor technology, the College of Computing
at Georgia Tech will drive the continued
advancement of computationally-intensive
applications that will directly impact the global
growth of our industry and the evolution of our
society.”
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Directed by Bader, the new STI Cell Center of
Competence at Georgia Tech has a mission to grow
the community of Cell BE users and developers by
performing research and service in support of the
Cell BE processor, and further enable students at
the College to grow their skills and experience
around Cell BE technology to apply in future career
opportunities. The Center will sponsor discussion
forums and workshops, provide remote access to
Cell blade hardware installed at Georgia Tech,
create and disseminate software optimized for Cell
BE systems, and perform research on the design of
Cell BE systems, algorithms, and applications. The
award from Sony-Toshiba-IBM will support the
Center’s activities and research efforts in support of
broadening Cell BE’s impact into multiple sectors
and industries, including scientific computing,
digital content creation, bioinformatics, finance,
gaming and entertainment.
“We are looking forward to seeing a paradigm shift
in computing, and anticipate that our collaboration
with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech will
create innovative applications for Cell processors,”
said Masa Chatani, Senior General Manager, Cell
Development Center, Sony Corporation and also
CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. “We
expect that it will generate tremendous value not
limited to PLAYSTATION 3 but to all Cell-based
computers.”
"We look forward to seeing the Center of
Competence at Georgia Tech generating
outstanding technology based on Cell BE,” said
Tomotaka Saito, General Manager, Broadband
System LSI Division, System LSI Division I,
Toshiba’s Semiconductor Company. "The future will
see growing demand for multi-core processor
applications, and we want to see the Center playing
a key role in anticipating and responding to such
demand."
“The joint collaboration by IBM, Sony and Toshiba
on the Cell processor has led to tremendous
advancements in computing applications and
innovations,” said Sharon Nunes, Vice President,
Business Development and Strategic Growth
Initiatives, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “We
are pleased to be collaborating with the College of
Computing at Georgia Tech to enable a team of
engineers, professors and students to create
breakthrough solutions, share information among
various industries and other universities, and
further the Cell ecosystem overall.”
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