Facebook: Tilera Boosts Memcached Efficiency

Data Center Knowledgehas a topic about Facebook testing a Tilera system with Tile processors for utilizing Memcached the caching system used bij Facebook and other very big webserverfarms. The Tile processor is a multicore design, with the cores communicating via a mesh architecture, called iMesh. It is intended to scale to hundreds of cores on a single chip. The system tested performed better in terms of performance-per-watt then X86 systems. Overall performance of the Tile processor is questionable though and just this niche in the servermarket alone is hardly financially interesting. That and it's incompability with X86 architecture makes it a ideal takeover by one of the other big fabs: Intel or Chinese Godson.