[Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk the killer app for the Cell Processor?

Dave Stubbs dave.stubbs at utoronto.ca
Fri Oct 7 22:09:59 MST 2005


Asterisk does all its DSP work in software, using the host's CPU(s).
Since the Cell Processor is likely a mediocre CPU but with a monstrous
stream processing capability, wouldn't it make sense to run very large
Asterisk installations on the Cell Processor?  Or on dual Cell
Processors?  The Signal processing parts of Asterisk would have to be
coded to run on the Cell's SPE units, but that should make it capable of
supporting many simultaneous channels, no?

Just a thought...



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