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Cell Technology & ‘Many-Core’

I’ve got more than you…

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Cell/B.E. Recap

What is the Cell Broadband Engine?Pioneered by Sony, Toshiba, IBM‘Many-Core’ processor1 PPE Processor8 SPE ‘SIMD Monsters’

PPE (PPU) is a scaler proc

SPEs (SPUs) are vector or array procs

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Cell/B.E. Recap

230GFLOPS by 9 processing elements

Synergistic Processor Element

Jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM

FLEX I/O20GB/s

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Where is the Cell?

Look in your kids’ rooms

…or next to your HDTV!

PS3 Clusters are also in high demand

for their compelling price/performance. Folding@home, Black Hole Research, Ray-Tracing, Modelling, etc

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The Fastest Supercomputer

Los Alamos National LaboratoryRoadrunner

Hybrid Many-Core Architecture Cell and AMD

116,640 Cell cores

12,960 AMD cores

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Roadrunner –116,640 Cell Cores1st Supercomputer to Sustain 1 petaflop/s

“The Los Alamos system, nicknamed Roadrunner… fended off a challenge by the Cray XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory called Jaguar.

The system, only the second to break the petaflop/s barrier, posted a top performance of 1.059 petaflop/s in running the Linpack benchmark application. One petaflop/s represents one quadrillion floating point operations per second.“

petaFLOPS = 1015

“The Los Alamos system, nicknamed Roadrunner… fended off a challenge by the Cray XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory called Jaguar.

The system, only the second to break the petaflop/s barrier, posted a top performance of 1.059 petaflop/s in running the Linpack benchmark application. One petaflop/s represents one quadrillion floating point operations per second.“

petaFLOPS = 1015

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Sony Cell+RSX Appliance

RSX Graphics coprocessor for hardware OpenGL operations – scaling, CSC, etc

20GBps FlexIO interconnect between Cell & RSX Low power, 1RU, Cell+RSX on motherboard Example Application: Proprietary Mathematically

Lossless CODEC ideal for DPX WAN transfers

230 GigaFLOPS230 GigaFLOPS

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Ingest, Transcode, Processing, Etc

fast 3.7 TeraFLOPSflexible Cell + Intelsmall 3U Rack Mount

New Platform & Potential Apps8 SPUs

Up to 16 Cell Chips

IntelMotherboard

8x HD-SDI

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• Dual, Quad, or Octo-core on one die• QPI Interconnect (no more FSB)• Integrated Memory Controller• IOH replaces MCH functions• Triple Channel DDR3 Memory• Hyper Threading• Built-in Power Management• Expanded PCIe support (8GB/s on x16)

Core i7 - Nehalem & X58 (Tylersburg)

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Legacy w/ FSB New (Nehalem) w/ QPI

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

NorthbridgeNorthbridge RAMRAM

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

IOHIOH

RAMRAM RAMRAM

IOHIOH

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For single core application…

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

NorthbridgeNorthbridge RAMRAM

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

IOHIOH

RAMRAM RAMRAM

IOHIOH

RAM: - Far from cores (poor latency) - Goes thru NB (low bandwidth)

RAM: - Next to cores (better latency) - Directly to RAM (better bandwidth)

Legacy w/ FSB New (Nehalem) w/ QPI

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AMD

Almost same as AMD HT architecture.Wider bandwidthLower latency

This was the reason why many people selected AMD Opteron.

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CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

NorthbridgeNorthbridge RAMRAM

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

CoreCore CoreCoreCoreCore CoreCore

IOHIOH

RAMRAM RAMRAM

IOHIOH

QPI is much wider than legacy FSB >24GB/sLatency inside CPU is much less than NB

Much Better SolutionLegacy w/ FSB New (Nehalem) w/ QPI

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HD-SDI RS422/9pin

VTR 1

Ingest 3

VTR 2

VTR 3

VTR 4

HD-SDI RS422/9pin

HD-SDI RS422/9pin

HD-SDI RS422/9pin

Ingest 2

Ingest 1

Ingest 4

Multi-Port Ingest

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Multi-Port Ingest

HD-SDI RS422/9pin

VTR 1

VTR 2

VTR 3

VTR 4

HD-SDI RS422/9pin

HD-SDI RS422/9pin

HD-SDI RS422/9pin

Multi-IngestEliminates separate

ingest devices

Future support planned for 2x ingest via single

3Gig HD-SDI connection

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Distributed Processing

Tasks

Many-CoreEngine #1

Many-CoreEngine #2

Many-CoreEngine #3

Many-CoreEngine #4

Many-Core Engine

Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell

Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell Cell

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Hybrid ‘Many-Core’ ArchitectureA Compelling Future

• Best of both worlds - Cell+Intel• Latest Nehalem / X58 Design• Dramatic scalability and flexibility• Open to new technologies• Ultimate in throughput and performance• Attention to power and efficiency concerns

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Thank you…

Contact: Lance KelsonLance.Kelson@am.sony.com