Applic A tion Acceler A tion with the cell Bro A d BA nd engine

to general-purpose computation has been widely recognized in the scien- tific computing community. 2 Currently, IBM offers two proces- sors based on the CBEA: the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) pro - cessor, which is used in Sony's Play - Station 3 and IBM's first Cell blades, and the PowerXCell 8i processor, which is at the core of Roadrunner, the world's first petaflop supercomputer.