The current DaCS Element (DE) types in the current supported DaCS
topology are listed below.
- DACS_DE_SYSTEMX
- The supervising host for a node.
- DACS_DE_CELL_BLADE
- An entire Cell BE blade. If a program is run on this DE, it has 16 SPE
children, and the DACS_DE_CBE elements are not allowed to execute any processes.
Some applications may find this configuration useful.
- DACS_DE_CBE
- Cell BE Blade Engine. A Cell BE Blade contains two of these. If used this
way, a Cell BE has 8 SPE children. As with the DACS_DE_CELL_BLADE,
if processes are running on a DACS_DE_CBE element, no processes
are allowed on the parent DACS_DE_CELL_BLADE. Running processes
on a Cell BE node allows finer control of memory and processor affinity and
may increase performance.
- DACS_DE_SPE
- Cell BE Synergistic Processing Element.