Kurt L Keville wrote: > I'm sure you guys have seen the Parallella project... > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone
Never heard of the name or the Kickstarter project, but it says, "The Parallella project is being launched by Adapteva, a semiconductor startup company founded in 2008." I posted about the Adapteva Epiphany back in January: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00163.html The Kickstarter description is confusing on first read. It describes a super parallel device, and then says "Dual-core ARM A9 CPU." Oh, is that like a controller device in addition to a multi-core CPU ("Epiphany Multicore Accelerator (16 or 64 cores)")? I'm assuming the other specs they list for ports and such are for the overall device, and not per core. So that isn't a conglomeration of SBCs but a single credit-card sized SBC with a "multicore accelerator" tacked on. So if we can infer from the Kickstarter pricing tiers, the finished product will retail in the $100 neighborhood? "...the Parallella computer should deliver up to 45 GHz of equivalent CPU performance on a board the size of a credit card while consuming only 5 Watts under typical work loads." So do you plan to gang together a few dozen of these? :-) -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
