Tilera - Manycore

lorgix · 2012-02-12, 12:08

Could this be a good siever? (ECM?)

Tilera has created a 100-core processor and some other interesting stuff.

Does anyone here have experience with their products?

science_man_88 · 2012-02-12, 12:45

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Originally Posted by lorgix

Could this be a good siever? (ECM?)

Tilera has created a 100-core processor and some other interesting stuff.

Does anyone here have experience with their products?

no I don't have experience with the products. without accounting for latency etc. the 100 core at 1.5 GHz is about 22 times my 2 core processor.

xilman · 2012-02-12, 15:46

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Originally Posted by lorgix

Could this be a good siever? (ECM?)

Tilera has created a 100-core processor and some other interesting stuff.

Does anyone here have experience with their products?

Strangely enough I was looking at their web page a couple of days ago, though for entirely different reasons.

There product may be very interesting indeed but until relatively easy access to a working system is available it's hard to make any significant comment.

science_man_88 · 2012-02-12, 16:53

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no I don't have experience with the products. without accounting for latency etc. the 100 core at 1.5 GHz is about 22 times my 2 core processor.

I just realized my calculation is for 1 processor with 3 it's up to 66 times the 8000 series is 4 processors for up to 88 times.

lorgix · 2012-02-13, 10:21

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Originally Posted by science_man_88

no I don't have experience with the products. without accounting for latency etc. the 100 core at 1.5 GHz is about 22 times my 2 core processor.

The architecture is different. So IPC differs.

I believe I read somewhere that the CPU-power of the 700MHz ARM in Raspberry Pi was comparable to that of a 300MHz PIII. Another piece of interesting hardware. ($25 with 128MB RAM, or $35 with 256MB RAM + Ethernet and an extra USB 2.0)

fivemack · 2012-02-13, 11:57

So you can get one 700MHz ALU from Raspberry Pi for $25 and 2.5 watts, or 1792 800MHz ALUs from AMD for $500 and 250 watts, and the software hasn't been ported to either.

Tilera are packet-processing machines, as far as I can see their role is to have a lot of network interface onto the chip and to be easier to program than an FPGA of similar cost. xilman may well have a more perceptive opinion.

ldesnogu · 2012-02-13, 13:58

For those interested some documentation is available here, including the instruction set.

To sum up what is lacking: divisions and efficient floating-point. The rest looks rather complete and interesting

fivemack, why are you mentionning AMD? Are you talking about GPGPU?

xilman · 2012-02-13, 14:05

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Tilera are packet-processing machines, as far as I can see their role is to have a lot of network interface onto the chip and to be easier to program than an FPGA of similar cost. xilman may well have a more perceptive opinion.

My opinion is pretty much the same as yours for all but the 3000 series. I don't yet know enough about the latter to tell whether they are more suited to other applications.

Paul

bsquared · 2012-02-13, 14:22

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The rest looks rather complete and interesting

Yeah, it does... complete cache heirarchy, inter-tile communication via register network, SIMD instructions... It looks like it would be fun to work with.

fivemack · 2012-02-13, 14:31

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Originally Posted by ldesnogu

fivemack, why are you mentionning AMD? Are you talking about GPGPU?

Indeed

science_man_88 · 2012-02-13, 14:40

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Originally Posted by ldesnogu

For those interested some documentation is available here, including the instruction set.

To sum up what is lacking: divisions and efficient floating-point. The rest looks rather complete and interesting

fivemack, why are you mentionning AMD? Are you talking about GPGPU?

can't divisions be affectively done via other things ?

2012-02-12, 12:08	#1
lorgix Sep 2010 Scandinavia 267₁₆ Posts	Tilera - Manycore Could this be a good siever? (ECM?) Tilera has created a 100-core processor and some other interesting stuff. Does anyone here have experience with their products?

2012-02-13, 13:58	#7
ldesnogu Jan 2008 France 2×5²×11 Posts	For those interested some documentation is available here, including the instruction set. To sum up what is lacking: divisions and efficient floating-point. The rest looks rather complete and interesting fivemack, why are you mentionning AMD? Are you talking about GPGPU? Last fiddled with by ldesnogu on 2012-02-13 at 14:07

2012-02-13, 11:57	#6
fivemack (loop (#_fork)) Feb 2006 Cambridge, England 1100100011000₂ Posts	So you can get one 700MHz ALU from Raspberry Pi for $25 and 2.5 watts, or 1792 800MHz ALUs from AMD for $500 and 250 watts, and the software hasn't been ported to either. Tilera are packet-processing machines, as far as I can see their role is to have a lot of network interface onto the chip and to be easier to program than an FPGA of similar cost. xilman may well have a more perceptive opinion.