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June 24, 2011

TIlera Touts Triumph of Cloud Chips Over Intel

Tilera unveiled its TILE-Gx 3000 Series processors that they tout as offering ten times the performance per watt of Intel SandyBridge with emphasis on boosting the power of cloud computing applications and placement in cloud datacenters.

According to Tilera, their new family of processors are designed not only to outpace Intel’s performance, but to provide a 50 percent reduction in total cost of ownership.

Ihab Bishara who directs Tilera’s server solutions group, says his company has been working alongside some of the world’s largest cloud providers for two years to ensure their processor will address some of the problem spots, including issues stemming from virtualization support and high processor frequency.

He claims that in addition to the provision of 64-bit processing, the Tilera chips mark the end of an era where 20-30 percent incremental gains are over, noting that the Gx-3000 series will provide the order of magnitude improvements that cloud datacenter operators have been scrambling for.

As the company’s release noted, these chips are targeted a number of common web applications and their back-end needs:

The TILE-Gx 3000 series processors target scale-out datacenters running throughput-oriented applications including:

Web applications, which need high throughput processing and low latency.

Database applications like NoSQL and in-memory databases, which require high-memory throughput and storage.

Data mining applications like Hadoop that rely on high disk throughput and data processing.

Video transcoding, which necessitates throughput processing.

Tilera is pitching a chip series that is not only tailored to web applications, but for those who are running high performance computing operations in cloud environments.

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