Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:14:17 -0700 From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> To: Paketix <paketix@bluewin.ch> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...? Message-ID: <94219799-34FF-4210-B816-6A5B6F5DBC2C@bluezbox.com> In-Reply-To: <DAF6D540-3311-4F75-8E24-A5BCBDBC7AE0@bluewin.ch> References: <DAF6D540-3311-4F75-8E24-A5BCBDBC7AE0@bluewin.ch>
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On 2010-09-26, at 4:13 AM, Paketix wrote: > 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...) Architecture/hardware looks really high end. I think there are several people among FreeBSD developers who would like to get their hands on this kind of technology. > - is there already some ongoing porting effort? Not that I know of. > - porting for this chip already discussed in this mailing list? AFAIR - nope
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