Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...?
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 30 10:05:41 UTC 2010
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
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