Extending the reach of Power Architecture technology in the embedded market, Freescale Semiconductor is licensing its e200 core family to designers of system-on-chip (SoC) devices and application-specific semiconductor products (ASSPs). Freescale will license its e200 cores, which are widely used in the automotive industry.
Archive for May 2, 2007
Freescale unveils 1st-to-market magnetic-based memory chip
Achieving a long-sought goal of the $48 billion memory chip industry, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced the commercial availability of a chip that combines traditional memory’s endurance with a hard drive’s ability to keep data while powered down.
Auf Heft-DVD: Linux für die PS3 Übersicht
Ein besonderes Schmankerl ist die dem Heft beiliegende DVD mit der kompletten Distribution “Yellow Dog Linux 5.0″, die sich einfach auf der Playstation 3 installieren lässt und die Konsole in einen kompletten PC verwandelt. Die Artikel erklären die ersten Schritte unter Linux sowie die Besonderheiten der Programmierung des Cell-Prozessors mit seinen neun Rechenkernen. Anhand des Beispiels eines Apfelmännchen-Fraktals wird gezeigt, wie man aus dem Cell-Prozessor die sechsfache Leistung eines Intel Core 2 Duo herauskitzelt. Außerdem binden wir DVB-T-Empfänger zum digitalen Fernsehempfang unter Linux in das System ein.
Linux on the Sony PS3 is IMPRESSing Japan!
Impress Japan boasts front-cover or feature articles about Yellow Dog Linux on the PLAYSTATION(R)3.
PS3 Real-time Ray-tracing
IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT) using three Sony Playstation3s (PS3) to render a model that is 75x more complex then those used in today’s games. Ray-tracing is the rendering technique used by the film industry and is considered to complex for today’s game systems.
The Romeo and Juliet Effect: Why Christians Keep Having Sex Before Marriage
In William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” the titular star cross’d lovers fatefully decide to pursue their love, despite the chaos and war unfolding around them. Their decision ends up being a fatal one. I suppose the ironic question that some people might want to ask the protagonists is why risk so much to violate the family rules?
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PS3 clusters from Terra Soft offer inexpensive, Teraflop performance on Cell processors. Available from the TSS Store now!
Terra Soft Offering: 6 Node PS3 Cluster $18325. 32 Node PS3 Cluster $44000.
A light weight but powerful cluster, ideal for the development of parallel, Cell optimized code. Seamless code migration to a Mercury Cell blade, 1U, or CAB product offers a smart, powerful upgrade path. This cluster offers a theoretical performance of greater than 5 TFlop!
Hack-a-thon II
At the Power.org Software Developers Conference, April 19, Terra Soft announced Hack-a-thon II to be held between the IEEE Cluster conference and Power.org Software Developer Conference in Austin, Texas, September 2007. Sponsored by Power.org, the event promises more PS3s, more bean bag chairs, and more FUN!
