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Title: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: bloodline on July 24, 2013, 05:54:27 PM
Dual Core A9 ARM, FPGA and a 16 core general purpose soc... USB/HDMI/GB Ethernet... Sounds like a sweet deal to me ;)

http://www.parallella.org/board/
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: vox on July 24, 2013, 06:05:10 PM
Quote from: bloodline;742033
Dual Core A9 ARM, FPGA and a 16 core general purpose soc... USB/HDMI/GB Ethernet... Sounds like a sweet deal to me ;)

http://www.parallella.org/board/

ARM AROS only. Would be nice to have MOS/AOS4 for it, but way impossible for now.

What is 16 or 64-core Epiphany Multicore Accelerator?????
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: bloodline on July 24, 2013, 06:23:45 PM
Quote from: vox;742035
ARM AROS only. Would be nice to have MOS/AOS4 for it, but way impossible for now.

What is 16 or 64-core Epiphany Multicore Accelerator?????
Yup, it is sort of a supercharged Raspberry Pi so AROS wouldn't be a problem... With that FPGA, Amiga chipset emulation would be possible (if desirable... Software emu might actually be better), and the Epiphany chip is a multicore general purpose processing chip... :)
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Fats on July 25, 2013, 10:05:47 PM
Quote from: bloodline;742033
http://www.parallella.org/board/


If everything goes right I should have one before end of the summer. Curious to know how long summers last in America :)
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Iggy on July 25, 2013, 10:08:28 PM
While ARM offers an attractive, low cost alternative, this is probaby my next Amiga.

http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CyrusPlus.jpg
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: bloodline on July 25, 2013, 10:23:28 PM
Quote from: Fats;742265
If everything goes right I should have one before end of the summer. Curious to know how long summers last in America :)
Nice work Staf! Let me know what it is like, I'm curious and want to play with one!!! :)
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Iggy on July 25, 2013, 10:42:41 PM
Quote from: Fats;742265
If everything goes right I should have one before end of the summer. Curious to know how long summers last in America :)

In our humidity laden area, they last too long.
From June until the end of September is typical.
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Lurch on July 26, 2013, 12:57:58 AM
Quote from: Iggy;742266
While ARM offers an attractive, low cost alternative, this is probaby my next Amiga.

http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CyrusPlus.jpg


Wow so many projects, so little money. Looks interesting.
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Iggy on July 26, 2013, 01:29:29 AM
Quote from: Lurch;742311
Wow so many projects, so little money. Looks interesting.

Its pretty clear Trevor is not going to be able to offer this at a significantly lower price.
It would be nice if someone looked into the T1040 and T1042 (or the T2080).
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: bbond007 on July 26, 2013, 02:14:39 AM
Quote from: Fats;742265
If everything goes right I should have one before end of the summer. Curious to know how long summers last in America :)


depends. here in miami, winter only lasts 3 months.
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Iggy on July 26, 2013, 02:44:34 AM
Quote from: bbond007;742315
depends. here in miami, winter only lasts 3 months.

Yeah, but in the Summer you frequently have cooler, lower humidity days than we do in the Mid-Atlantic.
Not fair.
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Argo on July 26, 2013, 04:40:32 AM
Quote from: bloodline;742033
Dual Core A9 ARM, FPGA and a 16 core general purpose soc... USB/HDMI/GB Ethernet... Sounds like a sweet deal to me ;)

http://www.parallella.org/board/


HUh, How is AROS with parallel multicore CPUs?
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Iggy on July 26, 2013, 05:27:40 AM
Quote from: Argo;742323
HUh, How is AROS with parallel multicore CPUs?

No doubt hosted under Linux (and then AROS is still probably limited to one core).
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on July 26, 2013, 05:49:31 AM
Why does the IBM Power 7 have such miserly performance?

http://www.adapteva.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/coremark3.jpg (http://www.adapteva.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/coremark3.jpg)

It's okay but don't you need software than is designed to take advantage of parallel processing?
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: Iggy on July 26, 2013, 05:52:57 AM
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;742328
Why does the IBM Power 7 have such miserly performance?

http://www.adapteva.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/coremark3.jpg

It's okay but don't you need software than is designed to take advantage of parallel processing?

Because benchmarks aren't that reliable a gauge of performance?

You know, the Zynq7020 version looks promising.
Although the Parallella64 would make it more so.
Title: Re: Could this be your next "Amiga"?
Post by: NorthWay on July 26, 2013, 05:35:20 PM
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;742328
Why does the IBM Power 7 have such miserly performance?

Seems rather fine. Didn't really say what type of P7 it was.
If you look at one of the other Coremark results you see that with 64 threads it tops the performance chart, and as such does what it was designed for: Not slow down when you throw massive parallellism at the system.