| Marty8370 said: @NNN2004 & Viper1 - read the following, it clear states 'SPE are Independent Cores'. |
"The PPE, which is capable of running a conventional operating system, has control over the SPEs and can start, stop, interrupt, and schedule processes running on the SPEs. To this end the PPE has additional instructions relating to control of the SPEs. Unlike SPEs, the PPE can read and write the main memory and the local memories of SPEs through the standard load/store instructions. Despite having Turing complete architectures, the SPEs are not fully autonomous and require the PPE to prime them before they can do any useful work."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor
