From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 11:28:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7A1106566C for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:28:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paketix@bluewin.ch) Received: from mail31.bluewin.ch (mail31.bluewin.ch [195.186.18.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7388FC0A for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.186.18.84] ([195.186.18.84:56597] helo=tr17.bluewin.ch) by mail31.bluewin.ch (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.45 r()) with ESMTP id 2B/12-19667-AEA2F9C4; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:13:46 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.62] (188.61.142.81) by tr17.bluewin.ch (The Blue Window 8.5.119.018.5.119.01) (authenticated as paketix@bluewin.ch) id 4C6921000180F4F0 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:13:46 +0000 From: Paketix Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:13:44 +0200 Message-Id: To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:28:51 -0000 there is a rather new processor from TILERA (100 core chip) which is most certainly already known here at FreeBSD mailing list. [http://www.tilera.com/products/processors/TILE-Gx_Family] the processor/platform is targeted towards: - high performance network security platforms - firewalling/vpn - utm - l7 deep packet inspection - network monitoring and forensics - cloud computing - web application (lamp) - data caching (memcached) - database applications - high-performance computing chris metcalf from TILERA did the current linux port and i was in contact with him about two weeks ago. at this time QUANTA computer is starting to offer a 512 core 2U box with an impressive performance/watt ratio (400 watts only for 512 cores). [http://www.tilera.com/solutions/cloud_computing] i guess those massive multicore chips would enable bleeding edge high performance solutions based on FreeBSD. well... - anyone interested in porting FreeBSD towards TILERA? (architecture seems to be similar to MIPS...) - is there already some ongoing porting effort? - porting for this chip already discussed in this mailing list? many thx /pat some links for those who want some more details: company homepage: http://www.tilera.com/ 64core processor: http://www.tilera.com/products/processors/TILEPRO64 100core processor with hardware packet (pre)processing http://www.tilera.com/products/processors/TILE-Gx_Family sample architecture for network appliances: http://www.tilera.com/solutions/networking/network_security_appliances 512core system from QUANTA computer inc. (available Q4-10/Q1-11): http://www.tilera.com/solutions/cloud_computing development system from TILERA: http://www.tilera.com/products/platforms/TILEmpower_platform