Linux-based Cell Workstation Unveiled At Linuxtag 2005
One of the awaited presentations at Linuxtag 2005 was the unveiling of the PPC64 Cell processor workstation, running Linux. The Linuxtag blog (in German) reports that the workstation was running a slightly modified Fedora Core 3 distro. One of the most interesting features of the Cell is a tiny virtual filesystem on each SPU ("synergistic" processing units), stored on the 256K of local memory. The functionality of the SPU can be accessed via this filesystem, such as loading a program context into memory by writing a virtual file. Check out the Linuxtag links for pictures and more stories from the event.
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