Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:53:08 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...? Message-ID: <4CA4B264.4000601@freebsd.org> 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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On 9/30/10 3:05 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > > 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 > hmm echoes of 'transputer'? I believe there is an occam compiler that runs on FreeBSD.
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