This video demonstrates one of the latest development from Semihalf team: the 96-core SMP support for FreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX (ARMv8 architecture).
This is a dual socket configuration running with two physical ThunderX chips connected with Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI).
The ThunderX® product family provides the best in class 64-bit ARMv8 Data Center & Cloud Processors, offering unprecedented level of integration and industry leading SoC performance. With high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, very high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, fully virtualized core and IO, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O’s that enable best in class performance/$ and performance/watt. The ThunderX® family includes multiple Workload Optimized® SKUs that enable servers & appliances that are optimized for compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads in the cloud. The ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM’s SBSA.
To know more visit @ http://cavium.com/ThunderX_ARM_Processors.html
