Hi
Have anyone thought about an implementation for a cell processor? I've read some articles about them, i really like that architecture, but i know very close to nothing myself about FFT The basic idea for a cell is they have one power pc cpu like core that controlls the 8 other cores. Those 8 cores have an own block of memory, it's now very big, IIRC it's 256kB or 512kB or so, but that memory has a speed the same of the cpu, so no need for cache. The controll core gives the 8 other cores blocks of data to process. So there is no cache trashing between the 8 cores working at about 3GHz. How big of an advantage will this aproximally be for prime searching? _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
