IBM Cell Processor software at CeBIT 2007

An IBM representative at CeBIT 2007 shows some Linux software that can utilise the whole power of the Cell processor chip, which for certain processor intensive tasks as Multimedia, 3D, physics simulation is 10 to 50 times faster than Intel or AMD single and dual core chips.

This video was released in HD quality at http://techvideoblog.com/cebit/ibm-cell-processor/

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• cebit
• 2007

[arospades]

Nowadays there is the CELL 2 which has 2 CISC cores and 32 RISC cores while the CELL 1 has 1 CISC core and 8 RISC cores.

[Charbax]

@arospades Where is it being used?

[tipoomaster]

"the cell is like, super powerful"

In theory, sure, but in reality it doesn't work out that way. Game code simply doesn't split well across multiple processors. You can probably find a way to split a few things off fairly easily - put the audio on one processor, animation on another; but generally the breakup is always going to leave several of the SPUs idle or underutilized. On top of that, it's usually not CPU speed that restricts the visuals in games - it's fill rate.

[Charbax]

It's great for encoding video, that's what I'd like to do with a PS3, encode my DivX videos 10 times faster then any Intel or AMD processor.

[Charbax]

I'd really like to have a consumer Linux computer with this chip or a newer Cell chip with even more cores, or more than one core, to encode videos in DivX HD insane mode at much higher frames per second, even faster than real-time. Now I only get about 4fps with my Dual Core Intel CPU..

[NimitySSJ]

You hit the nail right on the head. Companies always develop for the largest market. This is why Linux commercial software was slow to develop: we would rather build for the OS that had 98% of desktop market. Cell will face that problem, and more, due to its radical architecture.

[JSEProduction]

IBM should really release CPU's to compete against Intel and AMD.

[arospades]

@Charbax I dunno... I only know that it exists... Search for IBM CELL 2

[NFS13EPIC]

Ahhh back when the cell was a killer cpu.

[risseer23]

If the game is coded right for the cell it works very good.

[NewLynxChannel]

@cdbular Some time ago, according to a Softpedia article, Sony stated they no longer intend to use the Cell microarchitecture due to the problem it causes to the developers. It's more likely the PS4 will use a regular multi-core processor.

And obviously it will use a new GPU. But there's no way to tell whether it will be a NVIDIA or an AMD one, specially with AMD's market share having grown so much this year.

[jewinspiderwebs]

lol he doesn't have his high shcool

[cdbular]

@SnakeEngine , well regarding PS4 specifications it is just my opinion. The developers information and their complaints about the SDK is an official info from Sony.

[SnakeEngine]

@cdbular Now I think you got your information from some fake naiv sites, nothing official from sony, I think.

[SnakeEngine]

@cdbular Cool, it sounds like a firm plan, so there will be soon a ps4 (in 3 years or so)? How do you know that, is there any info, would really like to know. Thanks.