EECS Publication
The PlayStation 3 for High Performance Scientific Computing
Jakub Kurzak, Alfredo Buttari, Piotr Luszczek, and Jack Dongarra
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.
Published 2008-01-03 05:00:00 as ut-cs-08-608 (ID:83)