Comments on: Tilera TILE-Gx puts 36-core PC on a half-height PCIe card http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Mon, 14 May 2012 15:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jesse Chen http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177885 Jesse Chen Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:24:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177885 I bet australia is not gonna get that as well.

]]> By: Jesse Chen http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177886 Jesse Chen Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:24:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177886 I bet australia is not gonna get that as well.

]]> By: Jesse Chen http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177887 Jesse Chen Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:24:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177887 I bet australia is not gonna get that as well.

]]> By: Kirkaiya http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177799 Kirkaiya Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:52:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177799 That’s what I thought also – but in that case, the line in the article, “Unlike ARM-based manycore systems, like HP’s Project Moonshot, Tilera’s system can run all the regular server apps without recoding” isn’t really accurate, since it implies that all multi-core ARM solutions require “recoding”.  If the article is referring specifically to the “many independent core” Moonshot system, which is very different (as you said), I think the sentence is at least misleading.Linux can run on multi-core ARM systems just fine (for that matter, it’s running on quad-core smartphones and tablets now, underpinning Android, although granted that’s a custom kernel).Also, while standard server apps are sufficiently generic to run on any platform on which Linux runs, any custom apps that took advantage of hardware extensions in x86 might have unexpected or very slow performance, depending on how gcc handles it (I have only targeted x86/64 myself, so I have no experience porting to RISC architectures).

]]> By: First Name http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177769 First Name Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:06:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177769 Yes, they use their own instruction set and applications would need to be recompiled. No, the applications would not need to be recoded (rewritten) because it’s still a generic multi-core target that can probably even run Linux.

This is in contrast with Project Moonshot, which as far as I can tell is many independent very-low-power servers in a box each running their own OS, collectively sharing network connectivity and a large power supply.

]]> By: earl http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177676 earl Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177676 if i am not mistaken, tilera uses mips architecture- which is supported under linux- and  they even have a working linux distro, so for the most part its just a recompile to a mips target.

]]> By: earl http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177677 earl Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177677 if i am not mistaken, tilera uses mips architecture- which is supported under linux- and  they even have a working linux distro, so for the most part its just a recompile to a mips target.

]]> By: earl http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177678 earl Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177678 if i am not mistaken, tilera uses mips architecture- which is supported under linux- and  they even have a working linux distro, so for the most part its just a recompile to a mips target.

]]> By: Kirkaiya http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177658 Kirkaiya Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:49:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177658 Unless Tilera is suddenly and without notice implementing the x86 or x64 instruction set, then it’s not actually accurate to say, “Tilera’s system can run all the regular server apps without recoding”, unless you mean somebody has already done the porting (in which case, what’s the difference from the ARM systems?).
TileGX chips from the 100-core product used their own instruction set – meaning that yes, anything that isn’t already available as binaries has to be recompiled… or am I missing some change here?

]]> By: Kirkaiya http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177659 Kirkaiya Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:49:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177659 Unless Tilera is suddenly and without notice implementing the x86 or x64 instruction set, then it’s not actually accurate to say, “Tilera’s system can run all the regular server apps without recoding”, unless you mean somebody has already done the porting (in which case, what’s the difference from the ARM systems?).
TileGX chips from the 100-core product used their own instruction set – meaning that yes, anything that isn’t already available as binaries has to be recompiled… or am I missing some change here?

]]> By: Kirkaiya http://www.slashgear.com/tilera-tile-gx-puts-36-core-pc-on-a-half-height-pcie-card-30211246/#comment-177660 Kirkaiya Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:49:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211246#comment-177660 Unless Tilera is suddenly and without notice implementing the x86 or x64 instruction set, then it’s not actually accurate to say, “Tilera’s system can run all the regular server apps without recoding”, unless you mean somebody has already done the porting (in which case, what’s the difference from the ARM systems?).
TileGX chips from the 100-core product used their own instruction set – meaning that yes, anything that isn’t already available as binaries has to be recompiled… or am I missing some change here?

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