The Cell Broadband Engine processor security architecture

posted by   goofer (192)   28 months ago (www-128.ibm.com)

The Cell BE processor is a multiprocessor core design with nine processor cores. The principal core, the 64-bit Power Processor Element (PPE), is a PowerPC® processor assuming a supervisory role. The eight Synergistic Processor Element (SPE) cores are the computational workhorses: they are well suited for compute-intensive graphics and video calculations.