For Serious Software Developers Only was: Re: Multy-core CPUs

Peter William Lount peter at smalltalk.org
Sun Oct 21 17:10:49 UTC 2007


Igor Stasenko wrote:
> On 21/10/2007, Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     
>>> Call me a cynical bastard but unless I can go down to the local
>>> mega-mart and buy one for $1,000, or even $10,000, in a usable form, it
>>> doesn't even exist, period.
>>>
>>>       
>> How about we just say that your point of view is very practical... So if
>> Tilera were to make it's 64 processor chip board for a PC available for
>> less than $1,000 you'd buy it? Or would it really have to be from the
>> local mega-mart too rather than direct?
>>
>> When Tilera makes their Tile-64 processor available to anyone then
>> you'll be able to buy it and shove a Tilera Tile-64 board
>> (http://tilera.com/products/boards.php) into your PC to run with a 64
>> processor chip!!! In fact they claim to be able to put two 64 processor
>> chips on one expansion board.
>>
>> Let's all contact Tilera (http://tilera.com) politely and ask them how
>> much a development system card is and when they will ship it. If you are
>> serious tell them you'd like to buy one today and have them ship it today!
>>
>>      Tilera Corporation
>>      1900 West Park Drive
>>      Suite 290
>>      Westborough, Massachusetts 01581
>>      Phone: (508) 616-9300
>>      Fax: (508) 616-9306
>>
>> They also have a contact form.
>> http://tilera.com/company/contact_form.php. If you are serious about
>> buying a board to develop parallel applications with ask them for a
>> sales contact.
>>
>> It's getting real folks. Let's get Smalltalk ready to handle the new
>> large N-Core hardware wave that is upon us!!!
>>
>>     
>
> Btw, just read here (http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8981295285.html):
> --
> Availability
>
> The Tile64 is available now, in three variants differentiated by I/O
> mix and clock. Pricing starts at $435 in 10,000 quantities, the
> company said. Tilera's iLib and MDE tools, and TilExpress-64 board are
> also available at undisclosed pricing.
>
> --
> I think it will be less than $1000 for end user. Affordable price for 64 CPUs :)
>   

Hi,

So far they haven't replied to my repeated queries to purchase a 
development board. They also seem to be only focused on a few 
specialized vertical markets. That is why I'm asking any of you 
interested in their technology to inquire as well. Thanks.

Peter
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