Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...?

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

On 2010-09-26, at 4:13 AM, Paketix wrote:

> 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...)
    Architecture/hardware looks really high end. I think there are
several people among FreeBSD developers who would like to get 
their hands on this kind of technology.

> - is there already some ongoing porting effort?
    Not that I know of.

> - porting for this chip already discussed in this mailing list? 
    AFAIR - nope