Speaker: John Easton CEng CITP MIET MBCS MIEEE

About this event

In 2006 Sony shipped the PLAYSTATION3 game console, the first system built around the Cell Broadband Engine.  Though this is undoubtedly the most visible platform to use this processor, the same chip and many derivatives are used in a wide range of other systems and industries.  The ability to deliver new levels of performance and power has enabled entirely new classes of applications, reaching far beyond even those we thought of when the chip was first designed.

This session will show how the processor architecture allows it to deliver outstanding performance to a wide range of industries far removed from games and media processing  Using examples from communications, finance and healthcare, amongst others, you will see how we can harness the computational power to deliver systems that have been impossible to contemplate building before.

Speaker

John Easton CEng CITP MIET MBCS MIEEE
Senior Consulting IT Specialist and Technical Staff Member
IBM Systems & Technology Group Infrastructure Innovation