Re: [Caml-list] More registers in modern day CPUs

[Christophe Raffalli <Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>]

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David MENTRE a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> "Harrison, John R" <john.r.harrison@intel.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Both the old Inmos Transputer and the the more recent IBM/Sony/Toshiba
>> Cell processor have/had a dedicated area of fast memory, rather like a
>> giant memory-based register file.
>>     
>
> The Cell SPE has 128 registers of 128 bits.
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/FC857AE550F7EB83872571A80061F788/$file/CBE_Tutorial_v2.1_1March2007.pdf
>
> "Synergistic Processor Elements (SPEs) The eight SPEs are SIMD
>  processors optimized for data-rich operations allocated to them by the
>  PPE. Each of these identical elements contains a RISC core, 256-KB,
>  software-controlled local store for instructions and data, and a large
>  (128-bit, 128-entry) unified register file."
>
>
> Yours,
> d.
>   
And apart from the playstation III (under linux for sure ;-), what kind
of not too expensive computer
can we buy with Cell Processors inside ?

Regards,
C.

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