Re: LinuxBIOS for MIPS

[Bari Ari]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Dave Dworin wrote:
> > Is LinuxBIOS available for MIPS architecture?
>
> I would like it to be, but we have not found a good platform to work with.
>
> ron

We are looking at getting LinuxBIOS or PPCboot up on the Broadcom 1250

http://www.broadcom.com/products/1250.html

Dual 64bit MIPS cores, 3 Gigabit Ethernet Macs, Dual DDR controllers, 
PCI and HyperTransport I/O all on a single die and around 10 Watts at 1 
GHz. I hear there is a quad core version due out soon.

They look a bit pricy but we could easily stuff enough of these into a 
single 42U rack to offer the same performance as the large 10-TFlop 
cluster thats being built at LANL with 1/10 the heat.

Bari