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Research Center for PlayStation 3 Processor Gains Continued Support at Georgia Tech
7/11/2008
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The Cell Broadband Engine (B.E.) processor, created through collaboration among the three companies, "supercharges" compute-intensive applications running in computer entertainment and handhelds, virtual-reality, wireless downloads, real-time video chat, interactive TV shows, and other "image-hungry" computing environments.
The STI Center has been responsible for creating and disseminating software optimized for Cell/B.E. systems, and for performing research on the design of Cell/B.E. systems, algorithms and applications. In conjunction with this renewal of the STI Center, the college announced a series of new research projects that are being undertaken at the center to develop applications and productivity tools based on the Cell/B.E. microprocessor.
"Today, we are carrying out the vision we always intended--to generate breakthrough innovations using Cell/B.E. technologies working hand-in-hand with researchers at Sony Group, Toshiba and IBM," said David A. Bader, professor and executive director of High-Performance Computing in the College of Computing. "We are very encouraged that our initial research results are showing the multi-faceted applicability of this technology."
One of the key research challenges that the collaborators will address through continued applied research is the use of Cell/B.E. technology to better monitor an aircraft's structural safety in commercial and military airplanes. Researchers will develop Cell/B.E. based data-processing software to monitor structural components in flight by measuring and recording an aircraft's vibrations through a distributed network of sensors. A commercial signal processing application for airplanes is a long term plan.
The other joint research projects include:
- A signal processing kernel needed for oil and gas exploration and seismic monitoring.
- Data compression, used for file compression or reducing the size of messages sent between computers.
- Financial services applications for consolidated debt optimization, as well as European and American options pricing.
- Encryption libraries for securing communications for privacy.
- High-speed multimedia codecs, such as MPEG2 and JPEG2000 encoders and decoders.
- Bioinformatics, such as DNA sequence alignment and comparison.
- Tools that involve a cross-platform profiler, performance estimation, and tuning system with IDE type features.
- A single-source automatic translator for generating PPU and SPU codes from a monolithic C/C++ application.
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business. Send your higher education technology news to her at dian@dischaffhauser.com.
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