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Re: Playstation 3, checkout the Cell BE (Broadband Engine) processsor.

The groundbreaking Cell BE processor appears in products such as Sony Computer Entertainment’s PLAYSTATION®3

Cell Broadband Engine Support for Privacy, Security, and Digital Rights Management Applications

White Paper
The multi-core design of the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) presents an interesting opportunity for advancing secure computing. One class of cores on a CBEA chip, the Synergistic Processor Element (SPE), can be put into isolation mode whereby it is physically isolated from the rest of the system. Unlike many other proposed security architectures, this protection does not rely on any software mechanisms. Therefore, the scheme is robust against a compromised operating system or hypervisor, making CBEA uniquely attractive for security, privacy and digital content protection. Furthermore, the first implementation of this architecture, the Cell Broadband Engine (CBE), has produced compelling performance results for widely used cryptographic routines.
http://www306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/3F88DA69A1C0AC40872570AB00570985

College of Computing Selected as First Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence Focused on the Cell Processor

ATLANTA, November 15, 2006 – The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced its designation as the first Sony-Toshiba-IBM (STI) Center of Competence focused on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) microprocessor. IBM® Corp., Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation selected to partner with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech to build a community of programmers and broaden industry support for the Cell BE processor.

The groundbreaking Cell BE processor appears in products such as Sony Computer Entertainment’s PLAYSTATION®3, Toshiba’s Cell Reference Set, a development tool for Cell products, and already is included in the IBM BladeCenter® QS20, or “Cell Blade”, as well as through joint collaboration with Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., targeted at aerospace and defense, semiconductor, medical imaging, and other markets.

Directed by Bader, the new STI Cell Center of Competence at Georgia Tech has a mission to grow the community of Cell BE users and developers by performing research and service in support of the Cell BE processor, and further enable students at the College to grow their skills and experience around Cell BE technology to apply in future career opportunities. The Center will sponsor discussion forums and workshops, provide remote access to Cell blade hardware installed at Georgia Tech, create and disseminate software optimized for Cell BE systems, and perform research on the design of Cell BE systems, algorithms, and applications. The award from Sony-Toshiba-IBM will support the Center’s activities and research efforts in support of broadening Cell BE’s impact into multiple sectors and industries, including scientific computing, digital content creation, bioinformatics, finance, gaming and entertainment.

“We are looking forward to seeing a paradigm shift in computing, and anticipate that our collaboration with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech will create innovative applications for Cell processors,” said Masa Chatani, Senior General Manager, Cell Development Center, Sony Corporation and also CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. “We expect that it will generate tremendous value not limited to PLAYSTATION 3 but to all Cell-based computers. We are looking forward to seeing a new computing paradigm.”

"We look forward to seeing the Center of Competence at Georgia Tech generating outstanding technology based on Cell BE,” said Tomotaka Saito, General Manager, Broadband System LSI Division, System LSI Division I, Toshiba’s Semiconductor Company. "The future will see growing demand for multi-core processor applications, and we want to see the Center playing a key role in anticipating and responding to such demand."

“The joint collaboration by IBM, Sony and Toshiba on the Cell processor has led to tremendous advancements in computing applications and innovations,” said Sharon Nunes, Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Growth Initiatives, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “We are pleased to be collaborating with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech to enable a team of engineers, professors and students to create breakthrough solutions, share information among various industries and other universities, and further the Cell ecosystem overall.”
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/content/view/1233/