On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:32:04PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > >> So unless your application sits in the on-core cache, I am wondering >> where the real benefit >> is going to be (ignoring the fact that the processor is still PCI-e > > "serve Web data" seems to be the target, as mentioned in the release. > that seems pretty fair, since web servers tend to have pretty small
Add deep packet inspection to the list. Their literature is full of example data points for this. However with this many processing cores other things seem possible including encryption and decryption so firewalls and network management tools make sense as embedded targets. Their compiler and tool chain is apparently open source so when they open up that package a lot more will be known. PCI-e seems to be an issue but there are some other links on the part that might let large memory high internal bandwidth systems be built. If it can appear to be a general purpose system it might have value in the markets that Azul was targeting for their multiprocessor boxes where the application sitting in in core is a Java interpreter. Too bad the economic/investment environment is so upside down. This looks much more interesting than 10,000 lines of php and teen age web eyeball counts. I have not looked at the power budget but 10U of 100 cores per U is a lot of processor elements to harness. Interesting stuff. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
