Performance Criterion -- Notes about Multicore Programming

1. Cell Broadband Engine

 

2. In computing, FLOPS (or flops or flop/s) is an acronym meaning FLoating point Operations Per Second.

        yottaFLOPS     10^24
        zettaFLOPS     10^21
        exaFLOPS     10^18
        petaFLOPS     10^15
        teraFLOPS     10^12
        gigaFLOPS     10^9

In June 2006, a new computer was announced by Japanese research institute RIKEN , the MDGRAPE-3 . The computer's performance tops out at one petaFLOPS

 

3. Cache is not always good....such as when calculating FFT ....distributing computing...

 

4. PPE  for operating system and program control

    SPE  optimized for efficient data processing

 

5. PowerPC mechanism:

       virtualization....

       address traslation and protection....

       external exception handling....

 

6. EIB...Element Interconnected Bus...