Comments on: Wimpy cores are coming to Facebook. But which cores? http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/ Sat, 25 May 2013 11:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bobdvb http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860514 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:34:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860514 The Loongson chip has been around a little while, EEtimes has many mentions of Chinese MIPS. Also take a look here for a roundup: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/127791-china-plans-national-unified-cpu-architecture

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860393 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:20:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860393 I agree, but first we have to get to a point where alternative architectures are deployed and tested by trusted names.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860392 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:19:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860392 Which vendors?

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860391 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:19:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860391 oh snap. You’re right. I forgot my history for a moment there.

]]> By: bobdvb http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860331 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:48:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860331 One cannot ignore the Chinese in this situation, although the contenders put forward above are all viable and I like Marvell, the Chinese are producing volumes of MIPS-based processors which could fit the bill. Unlikely but still.

]]> By: Mark Sandstrom http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860232 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860232 The key question shouldn’t be so much what type of cores are “best”, but how they work together. The manycore chip fabric and hw automation of the traditional system software functions are critical to scalability and efficiency going forward. Ideally, there should be application load and type adaptive manycore fabric.

]]> By: Seymour http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860219 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:39:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860219 “Tilera has a the first non-x86 64-bit based server available in the market”

So, they’re selling early-1990′s DEC AlphaServers?

]]> By: Justin List http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860214 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:05:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860214 Your confusing old and slow cores with modern architecture. SPARC is dead.

]]> By: epimetheon http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860211 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:55:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860211 How about something like Sun’s SPARC4 architecture, or even SPARC5 due out next year? They have tons of little cores integrated onto a single chip, and amazing DB throughput.

]]> By: epimetheon http://gigaom.com/2012/07/03/wimpy-cores-are-coming-to-facebook-but-which-cores/#comment-860210 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:54:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=538181#comment-860210 How about something like Sun’s SPARC4 architecture, or even SPARC5 due out next year? They have tons of little cores integrated onto a single chips, and amazing DB throughput.

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