From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 10:44:30 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 74A35106566C for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:44:30 +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 0CC4A8FC0A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.186.18.83] ([195.186.18.83:55628] helo=tr15.bluewin.ch) by mail31.bluewin.ch (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.45 r()) with ESMTP id D9/FE-19667-C0A64AC4; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:44:28 +0000 Received: from [10.21.20.106] (194.209.131.192) by tr15.bluewin.ch (The Blue Window 8.5.119.018.5.119.01) (authenticated as paketix@bluewin.ch) id 4C69210201AB6AB2; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:44:28 +0000 References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8B117) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <6DD4F31E-93F7-4D80-AAB8-86E69FE5D9E5@bluewin.ch> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (8B117) From: Paketix Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:44:18 +0200 To: Robert Watson 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 10:44:30 -0000 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 BR /pat Sent from Pat's iPhone On 30.09.2010, at 12:05, Robert Watson wrote: >=20 > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Paketix wrote: >=20 >> there is a rather new processor from TILERA (100 core chip) which is >> most certainly already known here at FreeBSD mailing list. >=20 > 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 wo= uld 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 assum= e Tilera has some similar sort of message-passing feature? >=20 > Robert >=20 >> [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 >>=20 >> 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] >>=20 >> i guess those massive multicore chips would enable bleeding edge >> high performance solutions based on FreeBSD. >>=20 >> 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? >>=20 >> many thx >> /pat >>=20 >> 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" >>=20