I'm in the queue to get one of these. Of course we have all seen the "A Beowulf Cluster of X gives the masses cheap supercomputing" stories. It has a GigE connection as an interconnect, about which my questions from Adapteva have not been answered in any detail. And then there is the software thing.
-- Doug > > According to latest update first boards will be shipped next week, > so time for another refresher on Parallella > > http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/12/supercomputing-on-the-cheap-with-parallella.html > > > Supercomputing on the cheap with Parallella > Blowing open the doors to low-power, on-demand supercomputing > > by Federico Lucifredi | @federico_II | +Federico Lucifredi | Comments: > 3 > | December 10, 2013 > > Parallella topview > > Packing impressive supercomputing power inside a small credit card-sized > board running Ubuntu, Adaptevaâs $99 ARM-based Parallella system > includes the unique Ephiphany numerical accelerator that promises to > unleash industrial strength parallel processing on the desktop at a > rock-bottom price. The Massachusetts-based startup recently ran a > successfully funded Kickstarter campaign and gained widespread attention > only to run into a few roadblocks along the way. Now, with their setbacks > behind them, Adapteva is slated to deliver its first units mid-December > 2013, with volume shipping in the following months. > > What makes the Parallella board so exciting is that it breaks new ground: > imagine an Open Source Hardware board, powered by just a few Watts of > juice, delivering 90 GFLOPS of number crunching. Combine this with the > possibility of clustering multiple boards, and suddenly the picture of an > exceedingly affordable desktop supercomputer emerges. > > This review looks in-depth at a pre-release prototype board (so-called > Generation Zero, a development run of 50 units), giving you a pretty > complete overview of what the finished board will look like. > > [SNIP] > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
