The PlayStation 3 for High Performance Scientific Computing

Kurzak, Jakub and Buttari, Alfredo and Luszczek, Piotr and Dongarra, Jack (2008) The PlayStation 3 for High Performance Scientific Computing. [MIMS Preprint]

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Abstract

The heart of the Sony PlayStation 3, the STI CELL processor, was not originally intended for scientific number crunching, and the PlayStation 3 itself was not meant primarily to serve such purposes. Yet, both these items may impact the High Performance Computing world. This introductory article takes a closer look at the cause of this potential disturbance.

Item Type: MIMS Preprint
Additional Information: Appears also as Technical Report UT-CS-08-608, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, January 2008.
Subjects: MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 65 Numerical analysis
MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 68 Computer science
Depositing User: Ms Lucy van Russelt
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2008
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2017 14:12
URI: https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/1022

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