Patent ID: 8635384
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of managing data movement in a cell broadband engine processor, comprising: determining one or more idle synergistic processing elements (SPEs) among multiple SPEs in the cell broadband engine processor; creating, by a power processing element, a computing SPE from the multiple SPEs for an application; creating, by the power processing element, a managing SPE from a first SPE of the one or more idle SPEs; informing the computing SPE of a starting effective address of a local storage (LS) of said managing SPE and an effective address for a command queue; and managing, by the managing SPE, movement of data associated with computing of said computing SPE based on one or more commands in the command queue sent from the computing SPE to the managing SPE; and wherein the managing SPE comprises a data buffer located in the LS.