Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Sun Oct 3 23:21:51 UTC 2010


On 09/30/10 12:05, 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.

Sounds pretty much made for a variation on the microkernel design, or
virtualization.




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