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ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced it will host the Georgia Tech Cell Broadband Engineâ„¢ (Cell/B.E.) Processor Workshop from June 18-19, 2007, focusing on applications for the Cell/B.E. processor, including gaming, virtual reality, home entertainment, tools and programmability and high performance scientific and technical computing.

The two-day workshop is sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), Toshiba and IBM and will be held at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building on Georgia Tech’s campus. Keynote speakers at the event include Bijan Davari, IBM Fellow and Vice President, Next Generation Computing Systems and Technology; Dominic Mallinson, Vice President, US Research and Development, SCEI and Yoshio Masubuchi, General Manager, Broadband System LSI Development Center, Toshiba’s semiconductor company. More information on the workshop may be found at http://sti.cc.gatech.edu/.

Very cool, this workshop is covering the Cell/B.E processor and looks very interesting, its got some great speakers and should cover some relevant topics, these to include high performance computing as well as virtual reality?

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