Question about Manycore processor- "Tilera"

Wed Jul 7 02:21:30 UTC 2010

Thank you. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian at creative.net.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:09 PM
To: ??????
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Question about Manycore processor- "Tilera"

There's been plenty of "multi-dimensional" processor interconnects over the
years. You should do some further research. :)

Adrian

(hypercube-connected O2000, anyone?)

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, ?????? wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> I am not sure is it suitable or not that I ask this question here.
> 
> My question is about "Tilera", a new multi-core processor provider,
however,
> they call themselves "Many-Core" to separate from RMI, Cavium, etc.
> 
> Tilera  claims that their processor have a 2D mesh so they can put more
> Cores(from 36,64 to 1K) in one Chip, while Cavium only with 1D bus, so
> Tilera think they have a much higher performance.
> 
> My question is: 
> 1 Is it true that Tilera revolutionarily improve the performance of
> multi-core(or Many-core) processor? 
> 2 If you make the choice between Tilera and Cavium, what do you prefer?
Why?
> 
> Devin.
> 
> BTW, its website is  http://www.tilera.com/
> 
> 

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