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Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by MichaelGG on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:06PM (#13732847)
For memory-bound apps are they sort of useful? For instance, A packet forwarding system that reads a packet, does 3 main-memory lookups, then forwards or drops?
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Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by gonzo on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:50PM (#13733077)
If you do it right, you don't have to the lookups in main memory.

We have a c2758 doing 12mpps l3 routing (full BGP table) with 50 ACLs on one of these: https://netgate.com/products/xg-2758-1u.html

The c3000 prototypes are due in a couple weeks.

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Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by snuxoll on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:29PM (#13732981)
Now I'm wondering how one of the 16-core chips would handle VyOS...
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Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by gonzo on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:51PM (#13733080)
Won't be any faster than what you have today.
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Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by snuxoll on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:19PM (#13733240)
Right now I've got a little EdgeRouter X - it would probably be faster.
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Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by seanp2k2 on Saturday February 25, 2017 @05:26PM (#13734225)
Hard to compare against the Cavium Octeon. x86 general purpose vs MIPS64 with dedicated offload hardware...really depends on the use-case. I have an ERLite and AFAICT it competes with stuff way above it price-wise, e.g. https://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440-board.aspx

I'd rather run PFSense, but it's not worth an extra $200+ for just my home use.

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