Hi!
There is a new fairly exciting parallelization platform in the works,
currently as a kickstarter project (that will unfortunately likely not
make it since while it's technically awesome, its marketing/PR campaign
was far from stellar, but if you like it, don't hesitate to pledge in
the next three days yet :) :
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/
It consists of a control processor (in fact an FPGA) and a grid of 16
parallel processors in slightly Cell-like arrangement, with a promise
to dramatically grow the number of processors in future. Single board
costs $99.
Something worth knowing about, I think - while the processors
currently have fairly small amount of local memory, unfortunately, they
still seem to me as much more suitable for Computer Go than GPUs as the
thread on each parallel processor can be completely independent from
others. Perhaps if the project makes it (on kickstarter or in another
way), this is the hardware side of the next Computer Go strength boost
to come.
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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