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From our lab inventory, I can recognize the first picture is that of OCTEON NIC-XL, aka Thunder card. This usually carries CN3860 (16-core) or CN3850 (8-core) at 400 - 500Mhz.

The bottom picture is a standard network appliance board using fanless CN30xx processor. Usually single or dual core only.

Worked with both of these. The PCI-x card was used for SNORT and CLAM-AV processing offload using simple-exec, while the Control-Plane was running on x86 with Linux.

We have been working all flavours of OCTEON, OCTEON+ and OCTEON-II multicore processors for about 5 years now.

Jigna Seth
Paxym Inc.
Multicore Consulting Service
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