Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...?
Paketix
paketix at bluewin.ch
Sun Sep 26 11:28:51 UTC 2010
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...)
- 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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