Archive for October, 2012

A Supercomputer for only $100 – The Kickstart project Parallella

October 26, 2012

Check out Kickstarter project Parallella

Parallella, a personal supercomputer, is using Zynq 7010 FPGA SoC as the host, and Epiphany 16- or 64-core Microprocessor as the accelerator.
Adapteva, owner of the Epiphany technology, already has a SDK, and OpenCL SDK (beta). Parallella would be very useful for embedded vision, SDR, HPC and many other computation intensive projects.

The following diagram shows Parallella specification.

The Kickstarter goal is $750,000, and it ends on 2012-10-27. At the time of writing this post (2012-10-25, 23:33 MDT), there are 3,325 backers, and $578,542 pledged.
I pledged $99, and if you’re interested, please do the same. There are less than 2 days left to make it a success.