6. Performance Evaluation of CELL BE Processor

Funded by: United States Army Battle Command Battle Laboratory - Huachuca (BCBL-H),

Students: Yang Song

The slowing pace of commodity microprocessor performance improvements combined with ever-increasing chip power demands has become of utmost concern to computational scientists. As a result, the high performance computing community is examining alternative architectures that address the limitations of modern cache-based designs. In this work, to support Mercury Computer Systems' Sensor Visualization and Data Fusion (SVDF) Workstation development, we examine the potential of using the CELL BE Processor by a performance comparison against Apple Xserver Processor and SGI Altix Processor on a set of benchmark applications.

Publications:

Yang Song, Ali Akoglu, "Parallel Implementation of Irregular Terrain Model on IBM Cell Broadband Engine", 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 25-29, 2009, Rome, Italy