If you can spare the cash, please support this project. I'll be pledging 100 USD myself.
----- Forwarded message from Jeff Bone <[email protected]> ----- From: Jeff Bone <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:09:55 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10A403) Reply-To: Friends of Rohit Khare <[email protected]> Ok folks. This looks to be the Arduino or RaspPi for parallel computing. I'm psyched about it and I'm one of the unclosed "potential big backers" mentioned. This isn't going to replace G*PU in the data center but this gets cheap exposure to the masses. I think this thing has some real potential in the hobbyist / maker / hardware hacker / pedagogical space. Be nice to have a much more open (like this) solution here, in this space. Final push here. If they get within striking distance I'll probably step in to close it out. $0.02 (well, really, a whole lot more.) jb Begin forwarded message: > From: Kickstarter <[email protected]> > Date: October 25, 2012, 10:00:08 CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Project Update #18: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by > Adapteva > Reply-To: No Reply <[email protected]> > > > Project Update #18: We REALLY need your help in spreading the word! > Posted by Adapteva > We really wish we could have been this ready from day one of the Kickstarter, > but we couldn’t wait with the launch. Time has been our enemy from day one at > Adapteva. After the project is funded we will tell you about all the details. > It’s kind of an interesting story. > > We are now working the press hard from our end and have some potential big > backers that we are will try very hard to close with today and tomorrow. > > There is still hope, but we REALLY could everyone’s help in blanketing the > earth with Parallella news over the next two days. We will try to make it as > easy as possible, so here are some ideas/tweets/posts suggestions to start > with. (most of them inspired by backers!) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Email/Facebook/Ideas: > The project is STILL fundamentally about parallel programming but we have now > shown that we have a ready prototype of a REAL working computer. At $100, > maybe some of your non-techie friends would line one, so anyone who feels > comfortable spreading the word through facebook/email, please do. > Maybe it would be a great computer for your kids to hack around with? Who > knows, maybe it would even inspire a life-long passion for programming and > electronics? Maybe get one for a non-techie brother, sister, parent and help > them set it up in their living room? I am sure they would love you even > more.:-) > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone > Thank you!! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tweet Suggestions: > > A $100 Zynq based computer, are you kidding me? http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > An ARM based 5 Watt computer that runs Ubuntu Desktop for under $100. > http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella a smart(er)TV for $100? http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella: The first truly open OpenCL hardware platform. > http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella: 18 CPUs at 800MHz, 25 GFLOPS, 1GB DRAM, $100. Sweet! > http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella a hackable platform. http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > The $100 credit card sized Parallella combines FPGA, ARM, and DSPs. > http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella runs OpenCV: http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella will be great for SDR: http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > At $100 wouldn’t the open Parallella be a great education platform? > http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > What could Parallella do for DIY drones? http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > What could Parallella do for robotics? http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella, the ultimate “thin client”. http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > Parallella, a computer your kids can carry around in an Altoid tin can. > http://kck.st/UGQjG3 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > News Site submission suggestions: > (Pick any of the tag lines from the Tweet section or make up your own) > http://hackaday.com/contact-hack-a-day/ > > http://news.ycombinator.com/submit > > http://www.reddit.com/ > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > www.engadget.com (tip us link at the bottom right corner) > > www.drdobbs.com > > www.stackoverflow.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Forum/Community Posts: > If you are an active member of a forum, please consider posting a question > that would start interesting dialogue about Parallella. Please do NOT spam, > but if you think your community would genuinely benefit from the Parallella > platform, the please post. We are REALLY interested in finding out what these > communities think about the project. If you are a developer and you can speak > with confidence that you will be able to complete a project on the > Parallella, even better! > > http://xbmc.org/ > > http://slashdot.org/ > > http://opencv.org/ > > http://www.khronos.org/opencl/ > > https://bitcointalk.org/ > > http://www.minecraftforum.net/ > > http://www.emulator-zone.com/ > > https://meego.com/ > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/ (note: suggestion for collaboration only, not > competition!) > > http://beagleboard.org/discuss (note: suggestion for collaboration only, not > competition!) > > http://www.adafruit.com/contact/ > > http://123kinect.com/kinect-forums/ > > http://forum.xda-developers.com/ > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php > > http://foldingforum.org/ > > Care to comment? 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