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<body><div>Marketing these type of things as supercomputers annoys me. The performance of the Parallella board is 3 orders of magnitude shy of the bottom of the top500.org list (and more than 5 below the top) so not a supercomputer. It will outperform what was a supercomputer at some point in the past; but so will every other computer or phone produced today. All that changes is how far back you have to look. That might actually be an interesting way of quoting performance: what's the most recent top500.org list your system can outperform. In this case June 1993 was the last time it would have topped the list, but it could have stayed on the list till November 2001.<br></div>
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<div>The parallella board could be a cheap way to build what would be a supercomputer now though: 1000 of them would put you close to being on the top500.org list, which is very impressive for $100k (or more realistically somewhere around $200k once you add housing, power, cooling and interconnect). <br></div>
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<div>On Thu, Apr 18, 2013, at 09:02 PM, gordon dunlop wrote:<br></div>
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<span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font">This might be of interest to some of you. </span><div><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"><span style="color:rgb(37, 37, 37)" class="colour">Adapteva
CEO Andreas Olofsson gave a keynote at the Linux Collaboration
Summit, currently being in San Francisco, on the Parallella, a
parallel processing board aimed to encourage parallel programming for
software applications.</span></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="font">This is an article about it</span><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/"><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font">http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/</span></a><br></p>
<span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="font">The video of this talk entitled
“Kickstarting the Transition to Parallel Computing” can be found in
the Linux Foundation video archive. Other talks from the summit
should be uploaded to the video archive over the next few weeks.</span><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><a href="http://video.linux.com/videos"><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font">http://video.linux.com/videos</span></a><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="font">Parallella kickstarter page</span><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone"><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone</span></a><br></p>
<span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="font">Parallella website</span><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><a href="http://www.parallella.org/"><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font">http://www.parallella.org/</span></a><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font">
</span><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="font">Gordon</span><br></p><span style="font-family:verdana," sans-serif"" class="font"></span><p style="margin-bottom:0in">
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