there is a rather new processor from TILERA (100 core chip) which is most certainly already known here at OpenBSD ARM 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. it was chris who brought me in contact with the director of sales for the EMEA region. btw: 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 OpenBSD. now... - anyone interested in porting OpenBSD/ARM towards TILERA? - 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
