First ever course on the Cell Broadband Engine completed.
The Cell Broadband Engine is widely known as a powerful, but rather complex chip to work with. IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), however, are helping to educate students on the unorthodox processor with the first program in the U.S. structured around the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine. IBM, Sony, and Toshiba collaborated on helping to fund the course and Sony group provided the PS3 hardware to be used by students.