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Linux-ready networking SoCs scale to 40 cores (LinuxDevices)

[Posted May 28, 2009 by cook]

LinuxDevices takes a look at the latest System on a Chip processors from Netronome. "Netronome announced new multi-core "network flow processors" that are backward-compatible with Intel's IXP28xx, but claimed to offer over twice the MIPS. The Linux-compatible NFP-32xx system-on-chips scale from 16 to 40 cores, offer 20Gbps throughput, and provide a programmable dataplane, virtualization, and security processing, says the company."

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Posted May 31, 2009 23:08 UTC (Sun) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]

I really enjoyed with the IXP285x, though you spend a lot more time coding for the microengines,
which do not really run an operating system. than for Linux. You only have 8-16k instructions per-
core, so its similar to programming a network-centric microcontroller, which has a lot of really fast
RAM and IO attached.