Responding to original poster: What's the performance/core? Putting 1000 6502 cpus on a die isn't going to do much. Not even the 65832 will give any kind of performance.
Additionally, is the architecture some we can use? Cray supercomputers used to be very fast, but vector programming is not something we normally use. I don't know how much work went into the smp portion of things, but last I heard, we're not at the scaling to 1000 cpus efficiently yet. I think people need to understand we're not netbsd and have this need to run everywhere. Additionally, the "tasks" where the 1000 cores are supposed to be optimized for - that's just a list of things some marketing folks throw together. I guarantee if you pick some random task - say, screensaver, and ask them if the cpu will run that faster/cheaper/lower wattage compared to other cpus, they'll say yes. Honestly, have we hit some kind of performance limit with vpn on current hardware?? On 9/26/10, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote: >> documentation is available from tilera - but currently under NDA... >> guess this might be a showstopper for openbsd...(?) > > Definitely. > >> reason for porting? >> i would say tilera is the top performer regarding packet processing... > > But you say that based upon the only information you know about this > hardware, which is the sales material. > > Miod > > -- Sent from my mobile device http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4
