Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:44:18 +0200 From: Paketix <paketix@bluewin.ch> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...? Message-ID: <6DD4F31E-93F7-4D80-AAB8-86E69FE5D9E5@bluewin.ch> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009301103540.12886@fledge.watson.org> References: <DAF6D540-3311-4F75-8E24-A5BCBDBC7AE0@bluewin.ch> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009301103540.12886@fledge.watson.org>
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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 <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> 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
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