There's been plenty of "multi-dimensional" processor interconnects over the years. You should do some further research. :)
Adrian (hypercube-connected O2000, anyone?) On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, ?????? wrote: > Hello, all. > > I am not sure is it suitable or not that I ask this question here. > > My question is about "Tilera", a new multi-core processor provider, however, > they call themselves "Many-Core" to separate from RMI, Cavium, etc. > > Tilera claims that their processor have a 2D mesh so they can put more > Cores(from 36,64 to 1K) in one Chip, while Cavium only with 1D bus, so > Tilera think they have a much higher performance. > > My question is: > 1 Is it true that Tilera revolutionarily improve the performance of > multi-core(or Many-core) processor? > 2 If you make the choice between Tilera and Cavium, what do you prefer? Why? > > Devin. > > BTW, its website is http://www.tilera.com/ > > -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $24/pm+GST entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -