Armonk, NY-based IBM and the University of Washington in Seattle are investigating the adaptation of Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) technology for medical imaging applications, and plan to demonstrate their work on the university's campus in July.
IBM Global Engineering Solutions and the university have applied Cell/B.E. technology to compute-intensive applications like ultrasound. They will highlight the work, as well as Cell/B.E.'s application to other medical imaging uses, in a workshop on campus July 23-24.
The Cell/B.E. processor is the first implementation of the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture. It was jointly developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, and features a central processing core based on IBM's Power Architecture technology and eight synergistic processing elements, which produces compute-intensive image/signal processing algorithms.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 2, 2007
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