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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
John P. Bates, Redwood City, CA (US);
Payton R. White, Foster City, CA (US);
Richard B. Stenson, Foster City, CA (US);
Howard Berkey, Oakland, CA (US);
Atilla Vass, Foster City, CA (US);
Mark Cerny, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Morgan, Santa Monica, CA (US);
John P. Bates, Redwood City, CA (US);
Payton R. White, Foster City, CA (US);
Richard B. Stenson, Foster City, CA (US);
Howard Berkey, Oakland, CA (US);
Atilla Vass, Foster City, CA (US);
Mark Cerny, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Morgan, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Cell processor task management in a cell processor having a main memory, one or more power processor units (PPU) and one or more synergistic processing units (SPU), each SPU having a processor and a local memory is described. An SPU task manager (STM) running on one or more of the SPUs reads one or more task definitions stored in the main memory into the local memory of a selected SPU. Based on information contained in the task definitions the SPU loads code and/or data related to the task definitions from the main memory into the local memory associated with the selected SPU. The selected SPU then performs one or more tasks using the code and/or data.