An Open Source Environment for Cell Broadband Engine System Software

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The Cell Broadband Engine provides the first implementation of a chip multiprocessor with a significant number of general-purpose programmable cores targeting a broad set of workloads. Open source software played a critical role in the development of the Cell software stack.

By: Michael Gschwind; David Erb; Sidney Manning; Mark Nutter

Published in: Computer, volume 40, (no 6), pages 37+ in 2007

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