Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:13:44 +0200 From: Paketix <paketix@bluewin.ch> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...? Message-ID: <DAF6D540-3311-4F75-8E24-A5BCBDBC7AE0@bluewin.ch>
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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...) - 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
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