OT: Kiss your Crypto Goodbye

[GGTharos]

This is the first Quantum Computer that isn't a 'laboratory experiment'. In other words, it has been built as a general purpose computing machine.

 

http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/

 

 

ED: When do we get to see a LOMAC port to this? :D

[Pilotasso]

Impressive, how much computing power does it have?

[Groove]

Impressive, how much computing power does it have?

 

One Quantum computer have theoretically more power than all the computers on the world together. But lets wait 20 years for that :D

[Raploc]

"Bistromathics," he said. "The most powerful computational force known to parascience."

 

So there go eat your heart out with your quantum computer.......:matrix:

[nscode]

ED: When do we get to see a LOMAC port to this? :D

 

Maybe we'll get past 15 fps :D

[Anytime]

you might need a few more threads ;)

 

Maybe we'll get past 15 fps :D

[TucksonSonny]

This is the first Quantum Computer that isn't a 'laboratory experiment'. In other words, it has been built as a general purpose computing machine.

 

http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/

 

 

ED: When do we get to see a LOMAC port to this? :D

 

If the encryption-key has the same or larger size than your data/source then even a billion Quantum computers can’t do anything about it!

 

Anyway that is how I made my personal crypto :D

(This custom system is installed on a 2GB USB-stick!)

[hitman]

I wonder if starforce would ban it just cuz.

[fretwear]

Maybe we'll get past 15 fps :D

 

Mebbe, without mirrors. :music_whistling:

[A.S]

PS3 Chip

 

This remembered me and made me posting this.... Isnt that WOW

 

IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba disclose Key Details of the Cell Chip

 

 

Innovative Design Features Eight Synergistic Cores Together with Power Based Core, Delivers More Than 10 Times the Performance of the Latest PC Processors

 

San Francisco, CA, February 7, 2005 – At the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) today, IBM, Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment collectively referred to as Sony Group) and Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) for the first time disclosed in detail the breakthrough multi-core architectural design – featuring supercomputer-like floating point performance with observed clock speeds greater than 4 GHz – of their jointly developed microprocessor code-named Cell.

 

A team of IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba engineers has collaborated on development of the Cell microprocessor at a joint design center established in Austin, Texas, since March 2001. The prototype chip is 221 mm2, integrates 234 million transistors, and is fabricated with 90 nanometer SOI technology.

Cell’s breakthrough multi-core architecture and ultra high-speed communications capabilities deliver vastly improved, real-time response for entertainment and rich media applications, in many cases 10 times the performance of the latest PC processors.

Effectively a “supercomputer on a chip” incorporating advanced multi-processing technologies used in IBM’s sophisticated servers, Sony Group’s computer entertainment systems and Toshiba’s advanced semiconductor technology, Cell will become the broadband processor used for industrial applications to the new digital home.

Another advantage of Cell is to support multiple operating systems, such as conventional operating systems (including Linux), real-time operating systems for computer entertainment and consumer electronics applications as well as guest operating systems for specific applications, simultaneously.

Initial production of Cell microprocessors is expected to begin at IBM’s 300mm wafer fabrication facility in East Fishkill, N.Y., followed by Sony Group’s Nagasaki Fab, this year. IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba expect to promote Cell-based products including a broad range of industry-wide applications, from digital televisions to home servers to supercomputers.

 

Among the highlights of Cell released today:

• Cell is a breakthrough architectural design -- featuring eight synergistic processors and top clock speeds of greater than 4 GHz (as measured during initial hardware testing)
  
• Cell is a multicore chip capable of massive floating point processing
  
• Cell is OS neutral and supports multiple operating systems simultaneously

“Today’s disclosure of the Cell chip’s breakthrough architectural design is a significant milestone in an ambitious project that began four years ago with the creation of the IBM, Sony and Toshiba design lab in Austin, Texas,” said William Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Systems and Technology Group. “Today we see the tangible results of our collaboration: an open, multi-core, microprocessor that portends a new era in graphics and multi-media performance.”

“Today, we are very proud to share with you the first development of the Cell project, initiated with aspirations by the joint team of IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba in March 2001,” said Ken Kutaragi, executive deputy president and COO, Sony Corporation, and president and Group CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. “With Cell opening a doorway, a new chapter in computer science is about to begin.”

“We are proud that Cell, a revolutionary microprocessor with a brand new architecture that leapfrogs the performance of existing processors, has been created through a perfect synergy of IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba’s capabilities and talented resources, “said Masashi Muromachi, corporate vice president of Toshiba Corporation and president & CEO of Toshiba's Semiconductor Company. “We are confident that Cell will provide major momentum for the progress of digital convergence, as a core device sustaining a whole spectrum of advanced information-rich broadband applications, from consumer electronics, home entertainment through various industrial systems.”

 

[...]

 

CELL at a glance:

CELL...bringing supercomputer power to everyday life with latest technology optimized for compute-intensive and broadband rich media applications

 

SUMMARY:

• Cell is a breakthrough architectural design -- featuring 8 Synergistic Processing Units (SPU) with Power-based core, with top clock speeds exceeding 4 GHz (as measured during initial laboratory testing).
  
• Cell is OS neutral - supporting multiple operating systems simultaneously
  
• Cell is a multicore chip comprising 8 SPUs and a 64-bit Power processor core capable of massive floating point processing
  
• Special circuit techniques, rules for modularity and reuse, customized clocking structures, and unique power and thermal management concepts were applied to optimize the design

CELL is a Multi-Core Architecture

• Contains 8 SPUs :doh: each containing a 128 entry 128-bit register file and 256KB Local Store
  
• Contains 64-bit Power ArchitectureTM with VMX that is a dual thread SMT design – views system memory as a 10-way coherent threaded machine
  
• 2.5MB of on Chip memory (512KB L2 and 8 * 256KB)
  
• 234 million transistors
  
• Prototype die size of 221mm2
  
• Fabricated with 90nanometer (nm) SOI process technology
  
• Cell is a modular architecture and floating point calculation capabilities can be adjusted by increasing or reducing the number of SPUs

CELL is a Broadband Architecture

• Compatible with 64b Power Architecture™
  
• SPU is a RISC architecture with SIMD organization and Local Store
  
• 128+ concurrent transactions to memory per processor
  
• High speed internal element interconnect bus performing at 96B/cycle

CELL is a Real-Time Architecture

• Resource allocation (for Bandwidth Management)
  
• Locking caches (via Replacement Management Tables)
  
• Virtualization support with real time response characteristics across multiple operating systems running simultaneously

CELL is Security Enabled Architecture

• SPUs dynamically configurable as secure processors for flexible security programming

CELL is a Confluence of New Technologies

• Virtualization techniques to support conventional and real time applications
  
• Autonomic power management features
  
• Resource management for real time human interaction
  
• Smart memory flow controllers (DMA) to sustain bandwidth

Quelle: IBM