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Adapteva will build 16-core boards capable of 26 gigaflops performance, costing $99 each. The board uses RISC cores capable of speeds of 1GHz each. There is also a dual-core ARM A9-based system-on-chip, with the 16-core RISC chips acting as a coprocessor to speed up tasks.
Adapteva is well short of its stretch goal of $3 million, which would have resulted in a 64-core board hitting 90 gigaflops, and built using a more expensive 28-nanometer process rather than the 65-nanometer process used for the base model. The 64-core board would have cost $199.
4,965 people backed the project. The vast majority of them pledged at least $99, meaning they'll receive one of the 16-core boards, which are scheduled to ship between February and May 2013.
Adapteva is calling Parallella a "supercomputer," although the vaguely-defined term is usually applied to the types of large clusters used by government labs and research organizations, rather than computers than can fit right under your monitor. Parallella boards can be clustered together to hit higher levels of performance. Alternatively, the board could be used for simpler tasks, like turning your TV into a home computer. But Adapteva's main target for initial sales, CEO and founder Andreas Olofsson told us last month when the Kickstarter went live, are hobbyists and developers, "the guy who is working on an open source project and there’s no platform they can use today that fits their needs."
Fonte: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-hits-kickstarter-goal/ (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-hits-kickstarter-goal/)
Dêem uma vista de olhos, parece-me um projecto muito bom...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone)
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Adapteva will build 16-core boards capable of 26 gigaflops performance, costing $99 each. The board uses RISC cores capable of speeds of 1GHz each. There is also a dual-core ARM A9-based system-on-chip, with the 16-core RISC chips acting as a coprocessor to speed up tasks.
Adapteva is well short of its stretch goal of $3 million, which would have resulted in a 64-core board hitting 90 gigaflops, and built using a more expensive 28-nanometer process rather than the 65-nanometer process used for the base model. The 64-core board would have cost $199.
4,965 people backed the project. The vast majority of them pledged at least $99, meaning they'll receive one of the 16-core boards, which are scheduled to ship between February and May 2013.
Adapteva is calling Parallella a "supercomputer," although the vaguely-defined term is usually applied to the types of large clusters used by government labs and research organizations, rather than computers than can fit right under your monitor. Parallella boards can be clustered together to hit higher levels of performance. Alternatively, the board could be used for simpler tasks, like turning your TV into a home computer. But Adapteva's main target for initial sales, CEO and founder Andreas Olofsson told us last month when the Kickstarter went live, are hobbyists and developers, "the guy who is working on an open source project and there’s no platform they can use today that fits their needs."
Fonte: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-hits-kickstarter-goal/ (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-hits-kickstarter-goal/)