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The Social-Network Chip

Oct. 14, 2011 The growth of social media, search, and shopping could help chip startups get a foot in the data-center door.

Tilera Seeks to Grow its Silicon Valley Workforce

Sep. 22, 2011 In this video Tilera VP of HR Carol Dunnigan talks about hiring in the tech industry and the needs of Tilera specifically.

Cognitive Computing, Random Number Generators, and Many Cores Highlight New Chip Ideas

Aug. 19, 2011 Another fascinating presentation came from Tilera, where principal architect Carl Ramey talked about the company's many-core Tile-Gx design. He focused on how many-core architectures will require new thinking in terms of how the I/O works and...

Enterprises build optimized data centers too

Aug. 19, 2011 Web giants and mega-size cloud-computing providers garner most of the attention when it comes to highly tuned and optimized data center designs. In April, Facebook shared the specifications for the servers it builds as part of an effort its calling...

GE's new GFG500 Gb Ethernet video processor and 3U OpenVPX-REDI MCP500 processor offer flexibility, faster TTM

Aug. 16, 2011 The Tilera TILEPro64 700MHz processor at the heart of the GFG500 and MCP500 features an 8 x 8 grid of 64 general purpose processor cores for compute-intensive applications. This processor delivers very high performance for demanding image processing...

Chip makers to strut their stuff at Hot Chips 23

Aug. 08, 2011 Upstart many-core chip maker Tilera will be presenting at Hot Chips, too, showing off itsTile-Gx family chips for servers, networking gear, and other devices. The Tile-Gx3000 series of chips are aimed at servers and will have 36, 64, or 100...

There’s Something About Many: Adapteva and Tilera illustrate how to go beyond multi-

Aug. 06, 2011 Tilera uses a very different model: they focus on external memory with an elaborate caching and coherency scheme. Each node has a 32-KB level-1 instruction cache and a 32-KB level-1 data cache, supported by a unified (instruction and data) level-2...

Facebook Rates Tilera ‘Swell’

Aug. 01, 2011 Guess Tilera can stop all the double-talk about whether or not Facebook - and the other major-league cloud companies - except the not-invented-here-enamored Google - are interested its newfangled proprietary many-core x86-compatible servers.

Facebook 发布分布式服务器性能结果

Aug. 01, 2011  Tilera、SeaMicro和Calxeda一直将Hadoop海量数据计算和MemcachedWeb缓存作为卖点来宣传自己的微服务器产品,可是当遇到分布式工作负载的情况时,性能强劲的大型处理器核心所承担的超大规模互联网工作负载并不总是像智能互联网和核心设计那样重要。  SeaMicro最近发布了基于Atom双核64-bit处理器的微服务器,此款产品在一个10U的机箱中搭载了768个核心。SeaMicro还展示了此款微服务器组成的集群在处理Hadoop非结构化数据的分析能力。...

Facebook发布分布式服务器性能测试结果

Jul. 30, 2011  Tilera、SeaMicro和Calxeda一直将Hadoop海量数据计算和Memcached Web缓存作为卖点来宣传自己的微服务器产品,可是当遇到分布式工作负载的情况时,性能强劲的大型处理器核心所承担的超大规模互联网工作负载并不总是像智能互联网和核心设计那样重要。

페이스북 vs 구글, 데이터센터 비교하니...

Jul. 30, 2011 저전력 CPU 서버를 통해 그린 컴퓨팅을 실현한다는 페이스북의 목표는 최근 더 구체화되는 모습이다. 최근 국제 그린 컴퓨팅 컨퍼런스에서 페이스북은 인텔-AMD 서버 CPU와 타일레라(Tilera)의 32비트 타일프로64 CPU를 멤캐시(Memcache) 성능으로 비교하는 논문을 발표했다.

Facebook study shows Tilera processors are four times more energy efficient

Jul. 27, 2011 Tilera has been arguing for some time that its chips with 64 processing cores are more energy-efficient than typical Intel processors. But now Facebook is backing it up on that.

Facebook demuestra que los chips Tilera son más eficientes que los de Intel y AMD

Jul. 27, 2011 Tilera, cuya familia de procesadores Tile-Gx 3000 compite directamente con la arquitectura x86 de Intel y Advanced Micro Devices en entornos cloud, acaba de recibir el respaldo de Facebook. Y es que los ingenieros de la red social...

Facebook says Tilera chips better than Intel and AMD

Jul. 27, 2011 ngineers working at the social not-working site Facebook claim that tests on Tilera's many-core processors proved that such set-ups were more efficient than low-power, multi-core chips from Intel and AMD. Read more...

Facebook asegura que los procesadores Tilera baten a los de AMD e Intel en `la nube´

Jul. 27, 2011  A pesar de que la arquitectura x86 de Intel y AMD es la más popular en “la nube”, ingenieros de Facebook han concluido que la marca Tilera ofrece chips más eficientes para trabajar en ese entorno. Para ello llevaron a cabo...

Facebook tech vs. Google tech in the datacenter

Jul. 26, 2011 With their Tilera test results will Facebook become the first major web services provider to implement microserver technology?

Facebook engineers say Tilera’s multi-core processors are more efficient than low-power Intel and AMD chips

Jul. 26, 2011 Tilera, which builds many-core processors to compete with x86-based chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), got a boost from Facebook when engineers from the social media giant said Tilera’s processors out-performed those...

Facebook: Tilera chips more energy efficient than x86

Jul. 25, 2011 Facebook has completed a study comparing a Tilera-based server to traditional x86-based machines, concluding that the Silicon Valley company’s many-core architecture delivered better performance-per-watt and higher throughput than systems based on...

Facebook sides with Tilera in the server architecture debate

Jul. 25, 2011 Facebook engineers have tested a 64-core specialty chip from Tilera and found it more efficient for grabbing data quickly from key value stores. This test and others performed across the industry on alternatives to x86 chips may galvanize...

Facebook: Tilera Boosts Memcached Efficiency

Jul. 25, 2011 Facebook has prototyped new hardware that can dramatically slash the power required to run web applications like Memcached that support some of the Internet’s largest sites, the company said today. The tests found that low-power...

云计算时代的芯片业佼佼者

Jul. 24, 2011 Tilera公司首席执行官奥米德·塔赫尼亚(Omid Tahernia)表示,目前市场上的芯片产品无法满足谷歌和Facebook这些大公司所创建的庞大服务器群的需求。这些数据中心需要超强性能来处理日益增多的电子邮件、在线视频以及搜索流量。但是,处理器处理软件指令的速度提高是有限度的,而且这个过程中会产生大量热量,需要同时配备昂贵的散热系统。塔赫尼亚2007年加入这家位于圣何塞的公司,之前曾就职于摩托罗拉和Xilinx。他说:“过去几十年我们一直都在吃老本,...

Many core processor range set to cut data centre power consumption

Jul. 12, 2011 The burgeoning popularity of cloud computing, bolstered by that of social networking, is posing challenges for data centre operators. The reason is, of course, the phenomenal increase in the levels of data traffic and the similar increase in the...

100 x 0.5W cores = Cloud Computing

Jul. 07, 2011 Tilera's Tile-Gx family (see Single Chip Packs In 100 VLIW Cores) introduced the 100 core, 64-bit VLIW architecture but the chips where heavily loaded for high end communication chores.

Microserver chip performance smackdown

Jun. 28, 2011 There's been a lot of talk about how well future servers based on Atom, ARM, Tilera, and other processors might compete against workhorse Xeon or Opteron servers. What there hasn't been a lot of is benchmark data that shows how those so-...

New processor 10x as effective as Sandy Bridge

Jun. 28, 2011 Many core processor from Tilera takes up the fight against Intel. With 36 cores and a power consumption of just 20W the new TILE-Gx 3000 processor from Tilera Corp. could be a potential threat to Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) traditional...

OLS2011 - Tilera's Tile Architecture (Video) by Jon Masters from Red Hat

Jun. 28, 2011 Excellent introduction to Tilera delivered at the Ottawa Linux Symposium in June 2011 by self proclaimed "architecture junkie" Jon Masters, Principle Software Engineer at Red Hat.

Efficiency vs. performance: What’ll win for the hardware of the future?

Jun. 24, 2011 At GigaOM’s Structure conference, hardware executives from Calxeda, SeaMicro, AMD and Tilera battled it out over how the hardware infrastructure of the future will take shape. For the most part, the debate came down to the need for highly...

Tilera launches many-core 64-bit processor

Jun. 24, 2011 Fabless many-core processor vendor Tilera Corp. has launched its Tile-Gx 3000 family of 40-nm processors claiming they provide a 10-fold improvement over Intel's SandyBridge processor in terms of performance-per-watt.

Future clouds: low-energy boxes, immersive services

Jun. 23, 2011 The world is becoming a giant computer comprised of data centers, networks and devices on the fringe, but that’s not good enough.

Tilera throws gauntlet at Intel's feet

Jun. 22, 2011  Upstart mega-multicore chip maker Tilera has not yet started sampling its future Tile-Gx 3000 series of server processors, and companies have already locked in orders for the chips.That is how eagerly hyperscale data center operators are...