Comments on: Parallella: a supercomputer for everyone

By: gareththomasnz

gareththomasnz — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:16:31 +0000

It seems ideal for smart phone acceleration

By: snake0

snake0 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:01:18 +0000

One of these may not require cooling. A rack of hundreds/thousands of them will though…

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:08:24 +0000

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: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:15:39 +0000

Coursera course coming up soon on it.;)

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:56:14 +0000

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: GAUSS

GAUSS — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:47:35 +0000

Working on that very thing right now. :) I’m kicking myself for not taking more Verilog, though…

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:15:59 +0000

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: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:11:50 +0000

Actually, it isn’t.

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:27:28 +0000

fpga… theoretically you could make it into a, say, HTM, directly on hardware…

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:50:34 +0000

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?