> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:07:37PM -0500, Douglas Eadline wrote: >> >> I'm in the queue to get one of these. Of course we have all seen > > Yes, me too. > >> 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. > > It should be an integral part of the Zynq 7020 SoC, along > with the ARM cores. The Adapteva guys only contributed > the DSP cluster-on-a-chip. > > I'm more interested in the cluster kit, which bypasses > the Gbit Ether > http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/featured-products/products/parallella-cluster-kit
They show what seem to be Ethernet cables and power cords connected to the 4 board "cluster." They mention the Epiphany link connector cables, not sure they are in the picture. > >> And then there is the software thing. > > The SDK is available, and they offer > MPI as well as OpenCL, OpenMP etc. > Of course the embedded 32 kByte constrain > your problem size considerably. I know, I interested to see how well the software works. -- Doug > > -- > 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
