I might get one for me next year.
*Can't wait to run the autotuner on this little cute board.*
Philippe
2013/8/15 Karl Rupp <r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at>
> Hi Toby,
>
> > Karl Rupp <r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> >> Parallella will ship their first (OpenCL-enabled!) boards in October and
> >> also offers a university partner program:
> >> http://www.parallella.org/pup/
> >
> > I'd forgotten about these things! Their roadmap does look intruiging;
> > I'm looking forward to seeing a 64K Epiphany chip in 2018, and playing
> > with it from a neural net point of view.
>
> Even though high core counts look promising in terms of FLOPs/Watt, the
> tricky part is to actually use them efficiently... :-)
> I don't think we will see 64K cores by that time, though. Their inital
> roadmap listed 1k cores for 2014 already, which is (imho) way to
> aggressive...
>
>
> > And so en route to 64k cores, I'd be keen to get in early and play with
> > 16; though I suspect from the software perspective that programming an
> > Epiphany multi-core isn't much different from doing parallel programming
> > in other situations. So, yeah, I'm interested; and it's good to see
> > they've got an OpenCL SDK. What does the academic programme entail?
>
> The academic program gives away 1 board to academic partners
> (distributed equally) for every 100 boards sold. I actually prefer to
> spend the ~100 USD rather than spending time on writing a partnership
> proposal just to get a first device for experimentation. If our tests
> succeed, we may still try to enter the program in order to build up a
> small cluster over time.
>
>
> > This all reminds me, tangentially, of a compiler/language project that
> > seems to have died out: https://code.google.com/p/anic/ -- did any of
> > you come across that before? The dataflow paradigm does look very neat,
> > but I think the guy never found the time to build a working runtime
> > scheduler. Were I more interested in compiler technology, I'd be pretty
> > keen to work on something like anic..
>
> Haven't heard of it before, no. There are too many language attempts out
> there, so I don't even try to keep track of all of them...
>
> Best regards,
> Karli
>
>
>
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