Maybe we should start a new thread to discuss - but I don't see the reason for this necessarily .. I see Raspberry Pi filling the low-end "find out what ARM can do for you!" market - and I see other manufacturers putting out hardware with strong Linux compatibility ( i.e. BeagleBoard, Calxeda, etc. ) for the high end of the ARM market...<div>
<br></div><div>Is this trying to fill some middle ground? Or simply be completely open? I think there's definitely merit to creating fully open hardware ( at least, as much as possible given firmware, drivers, etc. ) - but I'm also interested in getting a really strong device for very cheap - and so far that seems to only be available in semi-proprietary flavors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Feel free to throw me under the bus... :) and yeah - maybe we should change the thread subject.</div><div><br></div><div>-David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Michael Haney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thezorch@gmail.com" target="_blank">thezorch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Paul Hummer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@eventuallyanyway.com" target="_blank">paul@eventuallyanyway.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.<br><div><br></div><div>I backed it, and I hope it works out.<div>
<div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>Apparently this uses an implementation of OpenCL on a copy-left license. They had to make some modifications to make it work for with the Epiphany chip, and released the source for those changes. The only thing that isn't open about this is the design of the Epiphany hardware itself. According to the videos on the Kickstarter page the desktop performance of this hardware is pretty good. Its using a dual-core ARM Cortex A9, which is equivalent to the SoC used in the 3rd generation iPad. The new Nvidia Tegra 3 is equivalent to the new A6X used in the newest iPad design.<div>
<br></div><div>Essentially, as Alexander said this a Raspberry Pi on steroids. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Michael "TheZorch" Haney<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/thezorch/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/thezorch/</a><br>
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