Tilera intros Manycore processor development

SAN JOSE, USA: Tilera Corporation, the leader in Manycore general purpose microprocessors has announced the availability of its Multicore Development Environment (MDE) 3.0.

The new MDE is based on the recently released Linux 2.6.36 kernel, which integrates Tilera's TILE architecture into the main Linux tree.

According to the press release, the MDE includes cross-compiling and native tool chains GCC 4.4, GDB 7.1, and GLIBC 2.11.2.

The 3.0 MDE provides a full Linux distribution with over 1,000 Linux packages based on RHEL6 sources.

Support for Tilera's architecture in the main Linux kernel creates many opportunities for open source developers to run their application on Tilera processors, the first Manycore architecture to be supported by Linux added the release.

"I am happy to have the TILE architecture in the kernel. Tilera provides innovative approaches for Manycore processors," said Linus Torvalds, founder and chief architect of the Linux kernel.

With both standard Linux and a GNU tool chain, Tilera customers can shorten their time to market by:

* using the same build infrastructure and make files

* leveraging the community's resource and available software

* reducing the learning curve with standard tools and software environment

MDE 3.0 is supported by Tilera's ecosystem of third party vendors offering complete solutions of hardware, middleware and applications to customers.

"We are happy to be part of Tilera's ecosystem. Tilera's processors and development environment enable development of cost-effective software solutions for computation intensive problems, in an intuitive manner," said Viswanatha Rao Thumparthy, VP, Engineering, Sasken Communication Technologies Limited, India.

He added, "MDE 3.0 uses Linux that is part of the official Linux distribution and benefits from the development and usage by a larger talent pool."