Parallella: a supercomputer for everyone
October 31, 2012
The Parallella project aims to make parallel computing accessible to everyone. The project has successfully raised its Kickstarter.funding goal of $750,000, with $898,921 pledged.
According to Adapteva founder Andreas Olofsson:
Making parallel computing easy to use has been described as “a problem as hard as any that computer science has faced”. With such a big challenge ahead, we need to make sure that every programmer has access to cheap and open parallel hardware and development tools. Inspired by great hardware communities like Raspberry Pi and Arduino, we see a critical need for a truly open, high-performance computing platform that will close the knowledge gap in parallel programing. The goal of the Parallella project is to democratize access to parallel computing.
Video Source: Adapteva
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Comments (10)
by gareththomasnz
It seems ideal for smart phone acceleration
by Marcos Marin
fpga… theoretically you could make it into a, say, HTM, directly on hardware…
by GAUSS
Working on that very thing right now. :) I’m kicking myself for not taking more Verilog, though…
by Marcos Marin
Coursera course coming up soon on it.;)
by GAUSS
That’s awesome! It’ll help a lot. Most of the AI stuff I write is in either C or C++, sometimes a little Python for scripting and interfacing with other software. It’s good that these things run Linux; never did much .NET development.
Right now just using a little Altera Nano for getting to know who whole business. For an industrial robot, will explore more serious FPGAs like the Xilinx models.
by Ian Clarke
This is probably the dumbest question ever asked on KurzweillAI :), but how does this computer function without cooling fans/heatsinks? Is this so revolutionary in it’s power efficiency that they’re simply not needed?
by Marcos Marin
Actually, it isn’t.
by Marcos Marin
Although the great majority of stupidity here comes from pure uncensored outright affirmative statements… “right?” =)
Well, at 5W I do not doubt static dissipators would be enough.
by GAUSS
Look up GreenArrays GA144 chips. They’re similar to this kind of architecture, and they don’t require any special cooling. I think the case here is likewise similar.
by snake0
One of these may not require cooling. A rack of hundreds/thousands of them will though…