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Advanced Video Coding

Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding.

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Aerospace

Aerospace is a term used to collectively refer to the atmosphere and outer space.

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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research and development detachment of the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of direct-energy based aerospace warfighting technologies, planning and executing the Air Force science and technology program, and providing warfighting capabilities to United States air, space, and cyberspace forces.

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AltiVec

AltiVec is a single-precision floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector) — the AIM alliance. Cell (processor) and AltiVec are cell BE architecture, power microprocessors and SIMD computing.

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AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that designs, develops and sells computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

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Arithmetic logic unit

In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Athlon 64

The Athlon 64 is a ninth-generation, AMD64-architecture microprocessor produced by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), released on September 23, 2003. Cell (processor) and Athlon 64 are 64-bit microprocessors.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Bandai Namco Entertainment

is a Japanese multinational video game publisher owned by Bandai Namco Holdings.

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Bandwidth (computing)

In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced – rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing).

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Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light and other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it.

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Blade server

A blade server is a stripped-down server computer with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.

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Branch predictor

In computer architecture, a branch predictor is a digital circuit that tries to guess which way a branch (e.g., an if–then–else structure) will go before this is known definitively.

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Brute-force attack

In cryptography, a brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of eventually guessing correctly.

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Bus (computing)

In computer architecture, a bus (historically also called data highway or databus) is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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Cell (processor)

Cell is a 64-bit multi-core microprocessor microarchitecture that combines a general-purpose PowerPC core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements which greatly accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as many other forms of dedicated computation. Cell (processor) and Cell (processor) are 64-bit microprocessors, cell BE architecture, IBM microprocessors, power microprocessors, PowerPC microprocessors, SIMD computing and Sony semiconductors.

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Cell software development

Software development for the Cell microprocessor involves a mixture of conventional development practices for the PowerPC-compatible PPU core, and novel software development challenges with regard to the functionally reduced SPU coprocessors. Cell (processor) and Cell software development are cell BE architecture.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Concurrency (computer science)

In computer science, concurrency is the ability of different parts or units of a program, algorithm, or problem to be executed out-of-order or in partial order, without affecting the outcome.

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Coprocessor

A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor (the CPU).

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CPU cache

A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from the main memory.

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Decapping

Decapping (decapsulation) or delidding of an integrated circuit (IC) is the process of removing the protective cover or integrated heat spreader (IHS) of an integrated circuit so that the contained die is revealed for visual inspection of the micro circuitry imprinted on the die.

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.

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Digital imaging

Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of a digital representation of the visual characteristics of an object, such as a physical scene or the interior structure of an object.

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Direct memory access

Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computer systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU).

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Double-precision floating-point format

Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point.

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Dynamical simulation

Dynamical simulation, in computational physics, is the simulation of systems of objects that are free to move, usually in three dimensions according to Newton's laws of dynamics, or approximations thereof.

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East Fishkill, New York

East Fishkill is a town on the southern border of Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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Embedded system

An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.

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Endianness

''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness.

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EWeek

eWeek (Enterprise Newsweekly, stylized as eWEEK), formerly PCWeek, is a technology and business magazine.

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Fedora Linux

Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.

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Fixstars Solutions

Fixstars Solutions, Inc. is a software and services company specializing in multi-core processors, particularly in Nvidia's GPU and CUDA environment, IBM Power7, and Cell. Cell (processor) and Fixstars Solutions are cell BE architecture.

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Floating-point unit

A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers.

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FLOPS

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

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Folding@home

Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics.

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Fourier analysis

In mathematics, Fourier analysis is the study of the way general functions may be represented or approximated by sums of simpler trigonometric functions.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Gameframe

A Gameframe is a hybrid computer system that was first used in the online video game industry. Cell (processor) and Gameframe are cell BE architecture.

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Gaurav Khanna (physicist)

Gaurav Khanna is an Indian-American black hole physicist, supercomputing innovator, academic and researcher.

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GNU Binutils

The GNU Binary Utilities, or, is a collection of programming tools maintained by the GNU Project for working with executable code including assembly, linking and many other development operations.

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GNU Compiler Collection

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems.

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GNU Debugger

The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, Assembly, C, C++, D, Fortran, Haskell, Go, Objective-C, OpenCL C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, and partially others.

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The GNU toolchain is a broad collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project.

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GPUGRID.net

GPUGRID is a volunteer computing project hosted by Pompeu Fabra University and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform.

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Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

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Green500

The Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IBM BladeCenter

The IBM BladeCenter was IBM's blade server architecture, until it was replaced by Flex System in 2012. Cell (processor) and IBM BladeCenter are cell BE architecture.

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IBM Blue Gene

Blue Gene was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with low power consumption. Cell (processor) and IBM Blue Gene are power microprocessors.

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IBM Developer

IBM Developer is a global community of coders, developer advocates, and digital resources that help developers learn, build, and connect.

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IBM Z

IBM Z is a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers.

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IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Image resolution

Image resolution is the level of detail of an image.

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Instruction set architecture

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers.

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Intel Core 2

Intel Core 2 is a processor family encompassing a range of Intel's mainstream 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core microarchitecture. Cell (processor) and Intel Core 2 are 64-bit microprocessors.

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Jack Dongarra

Jack Joseph Dongarra (born July 18, 1950) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.

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Kernel (operating system)

The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system.

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Latency (engineering)

Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed.

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Leadtek

Leadtek Research, Inc. is a Taiwanese company, founded in 1986, which focuses on research and development that is specialized in the design and manufacture of graphics cards.

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LINPACK benchmarks

The LINPACK Benchmarks are a measure of a system's floating-point computing power.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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LinuxTag

LinuxTag was an annual Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) conference and exposition with an emphasis on Linux but also BSD descendants located in Germany.

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Load–store architecture

In computer engineering, a load–store architecture (or a register–register architecture) is an instruction set architecture that divides instructions into two categories: memory access (load and store between memory and registers) and ALU operations (which only occur between registers).

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Load–store unit

In computer engineering, a load–store unit (LSU) is a specialized execution unit responsible for executing all load and store instructions, generating virtual addresses of load and store operations and loading data from memory or storing it back to memory from registers.

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Medical imaging

Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology).

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Memory coherence

Memory coherence is an issue that affects the design of computer systems in which two or more processors or cores share a common area of memory.

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Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running.

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Memory management unit

A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references on the memory bus, translating these requests, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory.

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Memory protection

Memory protection is a way to control memory access rights on a computer, and is a part of most modern instruction set architectures and operating systems.

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Mercury Systems

Mercury Systems, Inc. is a technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry. Cell (processor) and Mercury Systems are cell BE architecture.

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

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Microprocessor Report

Microprocessor Report is a newsletter covering the microprocessor industry.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Military

A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.

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Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats.

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Multi-core processor

A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores (for example, dual-core or quad-core), each of which reads and executes program instructions.

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Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.

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Mutual exclusion

In computer science, mutual exclusion is a property of concurrency control, which is instituted for the purpose of preventing race conditions.

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Namco System 357

The Namco System 357 is an arcade system board based on the Sony PlayStation 3. Cell (processor) and Namco System 357 are cell BE architecture.

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NEC SX-9

The SX-9 is a NEC SX supercomputer built by NEC Corporation.

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Network throughput

Network throughput (or just throughput, when in context) refers to the rate of message delivery over a communication channel, such as Ethernet or packet radio, in a communication network.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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OpenCL

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators.

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OpenCV

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is a library of programming functions mainly for real-time computer vision.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Opteron

Opteron is AMD's x86 former server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor which supported the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64). Cell (processor) and Opteron are 64-bit microprocessors.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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PCI Express

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards.

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Pentium 4

Pentium 4 is a series of single-core CPUs for desktops, laptops and entry-level servers manufactured by Intel.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Perturbation theory

In mathematics and applied mathematics, perturbation theory comprises methods for finding an approximate solution to a problem, by starting from the exact solution of a related, simpler problem.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia. Cell (processor) and PlayStation 3 are cell BE architecture.

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Pompeu Fabra University

Pompeu Fabra University (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF,; Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain.

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Power Processing Element

The Power Processing Element (PPE) comprises a Power Processing Unit (PPU) and a 512 KB L2 cache. Cell (processor) and Power Processing Element are cell BE architecture and IBM microprocessors.

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POWER4

The POWER4 is a microprocessor developed by International Business Machines (IBM) that implemented the 64-bit PowerPC and PowerPC AS instruction set architectures. Cell (processor) and POWER4 are 64-bit microprocessors, IBM microprocessors and PowerPC microprocessors.

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PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.

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PowerPC e500

The PowerPC e500 is a 32-bit microprocessor core from Freescale Semiconductor. Cell (processor) and PowerPC e500 are power microprocessors and PowerPC microprocessors.

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Processor register

A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor.

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QPACE

QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine) is a massively parallel and scalable supercomputer designed for applications in lattice quantum chromodynamics. Cell (processor) and QPACE are cell BE architecture.

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Rambus

Rambus Inc. is an American technology company that designs, develops and licenses chip interface technologies and architectures that are used in digital electronics products.

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Reduced instruction set computer

In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.

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Reflection seismology

Reflection seismology (or seismic reflection) is a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties of the Earth's subsurface from reflected seismic waves.

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Register file

A register file is an array of processor registers in a central processing unit (CPU).

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Ring network

A ring network is a network topology in which each node connects to exactly two other nodes, forming a single continuous pathway for signals through each node – a ring.

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Roadrunner (supercomputer)

Roadrunner was a supercomputer built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. Cell (processor) and Roadrunner (supercomputer) are cell BE architecture.

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Satellite imagery

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

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Scratchpad memory

Scratchpad memory (SPM), also known as scratchpad, scratchpad RAM or local store in computer terminology, is an internal memory, usually high-speed, used for temporary storage of calculations, data, and other work in progress.

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Semaphore (programming)

In computer science, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type used to control access to a common resource by multiple threads and avoid critical section problems in a concurrent system such as a multitasking operating system.

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Set-top box

A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into content in a form that can then be displayed on the television screen or other display device.

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Silicon on insulator

In semiconductor manufacturing, silicon on insulator (SOI) technology is fabrication of silicon semiconductor devices in a layered silicon–insulator–silicon substrate, to reduce parasitic capacitance within the device, thereby improving performance.

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Simultaneous multithreading

Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is a technique for improving the overall efficiency of superscalar CPUs with hardware multithreading.

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Single instruction, multiple data

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a type of parallel processing in Flynn's taxonomy. Cell (processor) and Single instruction, multiple data are SIMD computing.

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Single-precision floating-point format

Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point.

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Software engineering

Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is a Japanese-American multinational video game and digital entertainment company of Sony.

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Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor

The Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor is the first Center of Competence dedicated to the promotion and development of Sony Toshiba IBM's Cell microprocessor, an eight-core multiprocessor designed using principles of parallelism and memory latency. Cell (processor) and Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor are cell BE architecture.

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Source code

In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.

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Space.com

Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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SpursEngine

SpursEngine is a microprocessor from Toshiba built as a media oriented coprocessor, designed for 3D- and video processing in consumer electronics such as set-top boxes and computers. Cell (processor) and SpursEngine are cell BE architecture.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition.

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Status register

A status register, flag register, or condition code register (CCR) is a collection of status flag bits for a processor.

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Stream processing

In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming paradigm which views streams, or sequences of events in time, as the central input and output objects of computation.

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Structural engineering

Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and joints' that create the form and shape of human-made structures.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.

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Supermassive black hole

A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions, of times the mass of the Sun.

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System on a chip

A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC; pl. SoCs) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system.

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Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Thomas J. Watson Research Center

The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for IBM Research.

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Thread (computing)

In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system.

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TOP500

The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.

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Toshiba

is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Turing completeness

In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a model of computation, a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing-complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine (devised by English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing).

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth or UMassD) is a public research university in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

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Vector processor

In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed to operate efficiently and effectively on large one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.

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Vision processing unit

A vision processing unit (VPU) is (as of 2023) an emerging class of microprocessor; it is a specific type of AI accelerator, designed to accelerate machine vision tasks.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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XDR DRAM

XDR DRAM (extreme data rate dynamic random-access memory) is a high-performance dynamic random-access memory interface.

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Xenon (processor)

Microsoft XCPU, codenamed Xenon, is a CPU used in the Xbox 360 game console, to be used with ATI's Xenos graphics chip. Cell (processor) and Xenon (processor) are IBM microprocessors and PowerPC microprocessors.

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Yellow Dog Linux

Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is a discontinued free and open-source operating system for high-performance computing on multi-core processor computer architectures, focusing on GPU systems and computers using the POWER7 processor. Cell (processor) and Yellow Dog Linux are cell BE architecture.

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Zego

The ZEGO ("Zest to go") is a rackmount server platform built by Sony, targeted for the video post-production and broadcast markets. Cell (processor) and Zego are cell BE architecture.

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Zero ASIC

Zero ASIC Corporation, formerly Adapteva, Inc., is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on low power many core microprocessor design.

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1080i

1080i (also known as BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type.

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128-bit computing

General home computing and gaming utility emerged at 8-bit word sizes, as 28.

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19-inch rack

A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules.

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1T-SRAM

1T-SRAM is a pseudo-static random-access memory (PSRAM) technology introduced by MoSys, Inc. in September 1998, which offers a high-density alternative to traditional static random-access memory (SRAM) in embedded memory applications.

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45 nm process

Per the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, the 45 nm process is a MOSFET technology node referring to the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2007–2008 time frame.

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64-bit computing

In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide.

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65 nm process

The 65 nm process is an advanced lithographic node used in volume CMOS (MOSFET) semiconductor fabrication.

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90 nm process

The 90 nm process refers to the technology used in semiconductor manufacturing to create integrated circuits with a minimum feature size of 90 nanometers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)

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