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.
Index Terms:
Cell Broadband Engine, open source software, chip multiprocessors, multicore processors
Citation:
Michael Gschwind, David Erb, Sid Manning, Mark Nutter, "An Open Source Environment for Cell Broadband Engine System Software," Computer, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 37-47, June 2007, doi:10.1109/MC.2007.192