Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:05:40 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Paketix <paketix@bluewin.ch> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009301103540.12886@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <DAF6D540-3311-4F75-8E24-A5BCBDBC7AE0@bluewin.ch> References: <DAF6D540-3311-4F75-8E24-A5BCBDBC7AE0@bluewin.ch>
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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" >
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