Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...?

[Julian Elischer]

  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.