Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone
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Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone
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#2WTF: "45 GHz of equivalent CPU performance"
(though I see the more informative "50 GFLOPS/Watt" below... and I like the prospect of something that would make it cheap to play with large scale real time neural nets...)
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#3This is an interesting project that deserves to reach it's funding goal but progress towards that is slow (I have been keeping an eye on it since launched on Kickstarter).
I suspect the problem is that it has no compelling (and immediate) "use case". If they could communicate a set of application ideas then I suspect that a whole new raft of supporters will be happy to risk at least $99.
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#4WTF: "45 GHz of equivalent CPU performance" (though I see the more informative "50 GFLOPS/Watt" below... and I like the prospect of something that would make it cheap to play with large scale real time neural nets...)
Their attempts at marketing talk are indeed very bad, but their technology is pretty interesting.
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#5I have backed this project. This is an interesting startup, with some good solid technology behind it. They have managed to design and tape out a chip with just a 2m dollar budget so far. The main draw of their architecture is not its peak, but rather its efficiency, both in terms of perf/watt and perf/die area. You can look at their manuals on the site.
Hoping their funding drive succeeds. I am liking the fact that ISA is being fully documented and we will have a fully open-source toolchain to work with the system.
(Disclaimer: Not associated with Adapteva in any way).
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#7I don't really have any comment on the project itself (not something I would ever use and I don't know the value of what they're proposing).
But on purely geek terms this thing seems to warrant a "holy shit":
http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/e64g401/
Again I don't know how (un)common that sort of thing is but I wasn't expecting to see 64 cores in that tiny form factor. Does anyone here know how cutting edge this thing is if at all?
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Also does anyone here want to address use cases for this thing?
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#8Does anyone know what kind of cores these RISC cores will be? Will it be some lower end ARM version, or MIPS? Will it be something for which a wide array of tooling already exists, or will this have its own custom architecture which only works with their toolchain?
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#9I don't really have any comment on the project itself (not something I would ever use and I don't know the value of what they're proposing). But on purely geek terms this thing seems to warrant a "holy shit": http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/e64g401/ Again I don't know how (un)common that sort of thing is but I wasn't expecting to see 64 cores in that tiny form factor. Does anyone here know how cuttin…
Don't modern GPU's have essentially thousands of cores?
Re: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone
#10I don't really have any comment on the project itself (not something I would ever use and I don't know the value of what they're proposing). But on purely geek terms this thing seems to warrant a "holy shit": http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/e64g401/ Again I don't know how (un)common that sort of thing is but I wasn't expecting to see 64 cores in that tiny form factor. Does anyone here know how cuttin…
Don't modern GPU's have essentially thousands of cores?
Yes, but modern GPUs also use upwards of 100W of power, and their cores operate mostly in lock-step, which means they aren't fast for all kinds of tasks.