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56 <h2 class="chapter">6 FFTW on the Cell Processor</h2>
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59 Starting with version 3.2, FFTW contains specific support for the Cell
60 Broadband Engine (&ldquo;Cell&rdquo;) processor, graciously donated by the IBM
61 Austin Research Laboratory.
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63 <p>Cell consists of one PowerPC core (&ldquo;PPE&rdquo;) and of a number of
64 Synergistic Processing Elements (&ldquo;SPE&rdquo;) to which the PPE can
65 delegate computation. The IBM QS20 Cell blade offers 8 SPEs per Cell
66 chip. The Sony Playstation 3 contains 6 useable SPEs.
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68 <p>Currently, FFTW fully utilizes the SPEs for one- and multi-dimensional
69 complex FFTs of sizes that can be factored into small primes, both in
70 single and double precision. Transforms of real data use SPEs only
71 partially at this time. If FFTW cannot use the SPEs, it falls back to
72 a slower computation on the PPE.
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74 <p>FFTW is meant to use the SPEs transparently without user intervention.
75 However, certain caveats apply, which are discussed later in this
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