Re:MIPS provides highly scalable RISC processor IP
by rbanffy on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:17PM
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> The earliest Killer networking cards had a PPC chip onboard.
In my collection I have an IBM server that has two Pentium II processors and, IIRC, three PowerPCs handling specialized chores such as the network and disk array.
The Telum processor is only part of the story of their new mainframe too. While it's the Telum that runs the application code, there are many other different processors (and some Telums with different microcode loaded on boot) performing specialized jobs. The machine can have up to 256 Telum cores, but there's a maximum of 200 that can be dedicated to user code. The remaining cores will be working to ensure the user code doesn't need to wait for anything.
In my collection I have an IBM server that has two Pentium II processors and, IIRC, three PowerPCs handling specialized chores such as the network and disk array.
The Telum processor is only part of the story of their new mainframe too. While it's the Telum that runs the application code, there are many other different processors (and some Telums with different microcode loaded on boot) performing specialized jobs. The machine can have up to 256 Telum cores, but there's a maximum of 200 that can be dedicated to user code. The remaining cores will be working to ensure the user code doesn't need to wait for anything.