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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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