Hot Chips - The Conference

Leland Stanford Junior* University, aka Stanford University, is the home of Hot Chips 17 Conference, August 14-16, 2005. Session One on August 15 features the Cell Processor.

Presentations include:

A Novel SIMD Architecture for the CELL Heterogeneous Chip-Multiprocessor, IBM

IBM CELL Interconnect Unit, Bus and Memory Controller, IBM

Super Companion Chip w/ A/V oriented interface for the CELL Processor, Toshiba

Programming and Performance Evaluation of the CELL Processor, Toshiba

A list of the authors of the various presentations may be viewed here.


Zdnet.com reports that at the conference,

Toshiba showed off a "super companion chip," or SCC, for the Cell that can record 48 separate MPEG 2 streams at once.

The SCC sports a wide array of input/output systems. A single chip comes with four USB ports, two serial ATA ports, four PCI slots and a PCI (peripheral component interconnect) express link, and its own memory. The SCC will communicate directly with the Cell chip over a Flex I/O link, designed by Rambus, which can pass 5GB of data per second each way.

Read the article here.

Hat tip to Joe of the Pinehurst Thread. Thanks Joe, the Ramboids needed some good news . . .

*Stanford University is a full blown / grown university. Jane and Leland (Sr.) Stanford established the university in October of 1891 in honor of their son, Leland, Jr., who died in Italy in 1884 after contracting typhoid fever. Leland, Jr., was 15 years old.