Tilera Launches 512-Core Cloud Server
Tilera Corporation and Quanta Computer Inc., have announced a new power-efficient and high compute density server, codenamed S2Q. In its news release, Tilera said the S2Q server, targeted specifically to tackle todays cloud computing workloads
and is targeted at large-scale datacenters running high performance web, database, hosting, and finance applications.
The company claims its S2Q design specifically tackles todays cloud computing workloads.
"Each S2Q server includes eight Tilera TilePro64 processors and replaces eight high-end Intel Xeon 5000-class dual-socket servers, making it the highest performance and performance density 2U server in the industry. It provides vendors the building block for large-scale web clouds. Moreover, the integration of I/O on each processor enables this server to provide up to sixteen 10 GbE interfaces and sixteen 1 Gb interfaces without adding the power and the cost of additional chipsets and networking cards."
