non-x86 multicore - Re: CPU monoculture

On Feb 20, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Alexey Toptygin wrote: Well, they're both definitely targeted to embedded development (in the case of XMOS and Tilera, high-performance embedded). My company was certainly looking at Tilera for some network intelligence stuff, though I don't know if it really went anywhere. In this case, Tilera would supplant some heavy-duty x86 iron if it worked out, but we only used x86 to begin with because we wanted a more massively-deployable target than our previous Cavium project (which is, interestingly enough, based on MIPS). To make it run nice at 10Gbps on Linux consumer hardware, you have to do pretty massive overkill compared to something really meant to push lots of data through. GreenArrays is interesting, and I hope it works (because anything Chuck Moore does is intrinsically fascinating), but I'm having a hard time envisioning what I'd put it in. I know at least Dave McGuire has a GA dev board; is it as fun as it looks? - Dave