Porting effort towards TILERA massive multicore CPUs...?

[Paketix]

do not know all the details yet
but tileGX features (incomplete list):
- DCC fully coherent cache
- mPipe wire speed pkt processing engine
- on chip encryption/compression engines
- fast on chip mesh interconnect
- 2x40G interlaken or 8x10G
...

for more details see:
tilera.com/products/processors/TILE-Gx-Family

BR
/pat

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On 30.09.2010, at 12:05, Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> 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
> 
>> [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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