Parallella Community

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/arch ... /19/67G69/
http://parallel.princeton.edu/openpiton/
http://parallel.princeton.edu/papers/op ... plos16.pdf

What do you think about it?

I hadn't heard about this until earlier today. It looks interesting. I'm a big fan of the open hardware philosophy despite not being a hardware guy. But for $320 ($160 academic price) you can get the FPGA board and develop the architecture if you're interested.

It remains to be seen how well it can perform. I have concerns about how well their cache will scale with high core counts. Apparently, the cache coherency scales across tiled chips.

fyi, the ancestry of this processor is Tilera-->MIT RAW (through David Wentzlaff, the professor leading the group at Princeton).

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/raw/people/