Kickstarting the Transition to Parallel Computing
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Adapteva launches Parallella as an open, cheap platform claiming a $99 Linux supercomputer and a move to teach parallel programming; the company taped out a 64-core 28nm chip that runs at about 100 GFLOPS for 2 W, pairs a dual-core A9 running Ubuntu with an Epiphany manycore coprocessor and FPGA/“fbj logic,” and meets Kickstarter goals (~$750k, ~6,000 backers) with working 16- and 64-core boards that boot, run hello world and memory-access tests and aim to ship to backers this summer.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00COLLABORATION
- 1:55What is Adapteva?
- 3:52The Real World: Performance is Saturating!
- 5:59Nature is Massively Parallel
- 6:46The Heterogeneous Computing Vision
- 10:49What is Parallella?
- 11:14Parallella Principles
- 13:14Parallella Kickstarter Stats
- 14:57The Parallella Architecture
- 17:12Parallella Bring-up Day 3
- 19:34Parallella - What's Next?