From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 10:05:41 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 A1604106566B for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:05:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2228FC13 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:05:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B5C046B82; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:05:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:05:40 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Paketix In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: 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 10:05:41 -0000 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" >