From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c06205052416184b8a53c8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:18:30 -0700 From: Jack Johnson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <36111140-8D4D-41B7-BCA2-17659EA08E26@telus.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 52de6072-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/24/05, Paul Lalonde wrote: > The SPEs, of course, are the interesting part from the systems point > of view. I'm a layman, so speaking completely out my posterior here, but I read a paper somewhere that lead me to believe that some of the vectorizing techniques used on the Crays could be applied well to the cell processors. True? Not that I recall seeing a Cray port on sources.... ;) -Jack