[CoLoCo] Parallella kickstarter T-24 hrs: Ubuntu with low-power parallel hardware for $99?

[Paul Hummer]

If the Raspberry Pi is teaching people about computers for a low price,
this is going to teach people about parellel processing for a very low
price.  It's hard to find a cheap system with comparable specs (dual core
ARM and 16 RISC epiphany cores) for parallel processing.  If all you needed
was a media center, this is probably not the device you want.  If you're
wanting to explore parellel computing, this is definitely a good system to
experiment with.

The $99 level also comes with a book they promise to be writing about
parallel computing.  Most books on Parallel Processing are either expensive
text books or Windows specific.

I backed it, and I hope it works out.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>wrote:

> Any opinions out there about this one?
>
> Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone Adapteva by Kickstarter
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone
>
> Seems pretty fun to me, but I don't know much about parallelism.  On the
> other hand, what better way to find out?  It is the way of the future,
> after all!
>
> Not quite a 'supercomputer', but I imagine it could be the basis for a
> cool media station, or very savvy video surveilance, or ....?
>
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