Parallella: The $99 Linux supercomputer

[Pyromania]

Quote from the link below.

"Move over Raspberry Pi, here comes Adapteva's Parallella, a low-cost parallel chip board for Linux supercomputing."

http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

[commodorejohn]

Congratulations on completely missing the point of the Raspberry Pi, ZDNet!

Sheez.

[Duce]

How exactly did they miss the point of the Rasp Pi, John?  This board is geared to a completely different audience than the Pi.

[cunnpole]

Congratulations on completely missing the point of the Raspberry Pi, ZDNet!

Sheez.

I love how they still spin the 45Ghz argument. By those standards my old graphics card does 500Ghz on 300 Cuda cores. It's like they think parallel processing is a new thing. It maybe has found a niche in ultra low power parallel computing, but the piss poor journalism goes for the hype instead.

[MicroStrand]

It maybe has found a niche in ultra low power parallel computing, but the piss poor journalism goes for the hype instead.

Their price of $99 is only for the minimum configuration, the full price is $199. They say it is intended for research and education at universities. But anyway, the idea to put 16 cores in a SoC is nothing special, and without an operating system plus software, specifically designed for this type of architecture, meaningless.

[SamuraiCrow]

Since they're comparing to a $99 computer, they should compare to the ODroid with its quad-core processor or something else that costs $99 instead!  The RasPi costs about $50 including the powered hub and cabling.

[cunnpole]

They say it is intended for research and education at universities. But anyway, the idea to put 16 cores in a SoC is nothing special, and without an operating system plus software, specifically designed for this type of architecture, meaningless.

Yep, even for that market there are far too many existing motherboards with 16+ onboard Cuda or openCL cores, never mind those of us with dedicated cards. I'd much rather pick up the new 16 core pure arm chips if SoC floats your boat

[nicholas]

Let's all demand OS4/MOS/AROS ports to this thing quickly!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I clicked on the link.  As soon as I saw the picture of SJVN as the author, I knew it would be over-hyped Linux crap.  Please don't ever repost an article by this hack again.  Kthxbai.  

[commodorejohn]

How exactly did they miss the point of the Rasp Pi, John?  This board is geared to a completely different audience than the Pi.

Yes, exactly. It is geared towards a completely different audience, at more than double the price point, yet somehow the RPi should get ready to "move over" for it?

[koaftder]

I clicked on the link.  As soon as I saw the picture of SJVN as the author, I knew it would be over-hyped Linux crap.  Please don't ever repost an article by this hack again.  Kthxbai.  

+1. I've never heard of this author, but CommodoreJohn's comment about the comparison to the rPi prompted me to look up his bio. A history and English major and a career that consists of nothing but slinging words. 100% journalist and 0% hacker.

[bloodline]

Quote from the link below.

"Move over Raspberry Pi, here comes Adapteva's Parallella, a low-cost parallel chip board for Linux supercomputing."

http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

Didn't I already post about this board a few weeks ago?

It's nice, I really like it... But it's a totally different device to the Raspi... Also I've not seen any benchmarks yet to show why this is better than OpenCL on a GPU

[persia]

Speaking of intended audience, did the Raspberry Pi even reach it's intended audience of British teenagers wanting to learn programming?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

All five of them?

[Gulliver]

Speaking of intended audience, did the Raspberry Pi even reach it's intended audience of British teenagers wanting to learn programming?

I have a couple of close friends living in Britain, and they say it has become the must have geek toy, and very popular, but unfortunately despite the heavy promotion in the education sector, it hadnt caused a major impact the way they intended with teenagers learning programming.
Maybe it is because teenagers nowadays have so many other things to get distracted with. Things that werent present when we grew up (Internet and hardcore gaming).