From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 11 20:13:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE4C1065695 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:13:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843CF8FC1A for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so1709054ewy.13 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:13:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type; bh=8f+0hxrsuFCIvi+snvTZ2ShfmpZEg+iL1DtQgRiG5Is=; b=tENsyrWEv5ldhv0C4WvgWxmmn5IMvIjUtP1cqMN0X6m/v1T5kEEb6Ybsyz3MnrFnNO xiG+W3r+nM62+ecofKS1U+WCbPeun4wvTiVzu9+ci3NuWxK2287qTf82zl1z7sk1lbL7 z4tgYq5KTRDDPtjqIXIlLKXLvVmTn84Cj5d/U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=YgZyidhplluSBw6B+KCW3+gh8lO6oS9PadT4+irzibCDNaA2uJTDAjV+0noPPnMBo+ jOaJz4SKqBjr/DNVSIiuJ1A5KGOwQabp5FeDbnec9YVzBJgpLMm4iSyuiYJCC2eQjrgb dn8gHL4t43iysLqwmjk4OsewrWrmg1pd3fVhI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: ivoras@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.165.85 with SMTP id d63mr193389wel.123.1265919216764; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:13:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:13:16 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: d4b9bbba664f52fe Message-ID: <9bbcef731002111213q18d5d6b4pa6aea824eb9bb6ff@mail.gmail.com> To: Artem Belevich Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future CPUs - 128 threads X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:13:39 -0000 On 11 February 2010 21:01, Artem Belevich wrote: > MIPS variants with many cores/threads have been in production for > quite a while, though for some reason that happened without too much > PR noise. > > http://www.rmicorp.com/products/XLR_732.htm > http://www.caviumnetworks.com/OCTEON_MIPS64.html Probably because you cannot buy a ready made server machine with such a CPU and 4-8 disk drives practically by mail order :) Seriously, simply because of curiosity - are MIPS CPUs used in any kind of "general purpose" machines?