they took over almost all SIMD vector tasks, but one thing that they’re not good at is being a general-purpose parallel computer. This really ticked [Raph Levien] off and it inspired him to ...

Vector and SIMD), memory hierarchy design, I/O, and recent trends in architecture (e.g., low-power architectures, application-specific processors). Case studies. REQUIRED TEXT: None RECOMMENDED TEXT: ...

In its most basic form IBM's Cell does what computer architects ... The actual architecture of the Cell SPE is a dual-issue, statically scheduled SIMD processor with a large local storage (LS ...

they took over almost all SIMD vector tasks, but one thing that they’re not good at is being a general-purpose parallel computer. This really ticked [Raph Levien] off and it inspired him to ...

Vector and SIMD), memory hierarchy design, I/O, and recent trends in architecture (e.g., low-power architectures, application-specific processors). Case studies. REQUIRED TEXT: None RECOMMENDED TEXT: ...