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Upcoming Events: SNIC Cloud Computing Course at UPPMAX, May 16 Apr 17, 2012; HPC2N Symposium – Inauguration of Abisko, May 31, 2012 May 04, 2012; AMD course about the Bulldozer architecture UPPMAX, room P2446,
May 22, 2012; COST Training School for Next Generation Sequencing Uppsala, Sweden,
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Cell B.E. resources at UPPMAX

Cell Broadband Engine resources

UPPMAX currently have two Cell/B.E based clusters. One IBM blade center with two QS22 blades and one cluster of eight Playstation3s.

The CELL processor

The CELL processor is a heterogeneous multicore processor with two different types of cores. One type, the PPE, is based on the PowerPC architecture and the other one is the Synergetic Processing Element (SPE). The benefit of this architecture is that high performance can be gained with a bit of programming effort. For more information about the CELL processor see http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/

Cell/B.E. clusters at UPPMAX

Playstation3 cluster - OctoPS

QS22 - PowerXCell 8i Cluster

Examples of application developed with UPPMAX Cell/B.E. resources

CellMC is an open source program generator that compiles a mesoscopic model of a biochemical reaction network

http://www.cellmc.org/

Distributed graphics with the CELL B.E.

http://www.cb.uu.se/~martin/pd/