From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 16:16:40 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 C6EB51065672; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:16:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (out-0-24.mx.aerioconnect.net [216.240.47.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBC18FC12; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from idiom.com (postfix@mx0.idiom.com [216.240.32.160]) by out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o8UFscRi006790; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:54:38 -0700 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (h-67-100-89-137.snfccasy.static.covad.net [67.100.89.137]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD322D6021; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CA4B2E7.1@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:55:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paketix References: <6DD4F31E-93F7-4D80-AAB8-86E69FE5D9E5@bluewin.ch> In-Reply-To: <6DD4F31E-93F7-4D80-AAB8-86E69FE5D9E5@bluewin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 216.240.47.51 Cc: Robert Watson , "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:16:41 -0000 On 9/30/10 3:44 AM, Paketix wrote: > do not know all the details yet > but tileGX features (incomplete list): > - DCC fully coherent cache > - mPipe wire speed pkt processing engine > - on chip encryption/compression engines > - fast on chip mesh interconnect > - 2x40G interlaken or 8x10G > ... > > for more details see: > tilera.com/products/processors/TILE-Gx-Family http://www.tilera.com/products/processors/TILE-Gx_Family > BR > /pat > > Sent from Pat's iPhone > > On 30.09.2010, at 12:05, Robert Watson wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Paketix wrote: >> >>> there is a rather new processor from TILERA (100 core chip) which is >>> most certainly already known here at FreeBSD mailing list. >> Theory has it I'll be getting access to Intel SCC 48/96-core hardware here at Cambridge in the moderately near future, and I've been pondering what would be involved. Their model involves 48+ x86 cores without cache coherency, so you need separate OS instances for each. However, the cores are linked by fifo-like memory that we'll need to figure out what to do with. I assume Tilera has some similar sort of message-passing feature? >> >> Robert >> >>> [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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >