On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:23:35PM +0000, Herb Peyerl wrote: > > Last time I bought a cavium board it was >$5k USD... An Octeon 3850 > was $700 for 1521 piece part... I didn't think they had anything > reasonable down below $500? (and as far as I remember, they already > had FreeBSD running on the Octeons). Admittedly it's been a few > years.
Cavium and Raza (Now "NetLogic") both have low-core-count parts in the way sub-$100 price range. Same basic architecture as the big parts (these aren't their cut-down 32-bit parts), just less cores and less goodies. Even the very bottom of the line parts typically still have multiple GigE interfaces on them and various other highly useful stuff. -- Thor Lancelot Simon t...@rek.tjls.com "All of my opinions are consistent, but I cannot present them all at once." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On The Social Contract
