Sony to Showcase High-Speed Cell Computing Board Prototype at SIGGRAPH 2007.Tokyo, Japan, Aug 1, 2007 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - Sony will be exhibiting its newly developed "Cell Computing Cell Computing is a distributed computing project operated by NTT Data to perform biomedical research. It currently uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, however it was initially launched using the United Devices Grid MP platform in Board (prototype)" at SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, www.siggraph.org) The arm of the ACM that specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Providing publications, workshops and conferences, it has served technicians and researchers as well as the artist and business community 2007 to be held August 7 - 9 at the San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. , California. The "Cell Computing Board" incorporates the high-performance Cell Broadband EngineTM (Cell/B.E.) microprocessor and RSX RSX Reality Synthesizer (Sony PlayStation) RSX Real-Time Resource Sharing Executive RSX Rally Sport Experimental (Acura) RSX Risk Information & Services Exchange RSX Real Time System Executive (R) graphics processor to deliver high computational performance capable of handling large amounts of data at high speed while also achieving reductions in size and energy consumption. This technology represents a new solution for multimedia computing computing - computer applications such as computer graphics and scientific computations that require massive data quantities to be processed. About Sony Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and on-line businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading personal broadband entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $67 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net Source: Sony Contact: Sony Corporation Corporate Communications Tel: +81-3-5448-2200 Fax: +81-3-5448-3061 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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