Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying
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Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying
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#2Dying? At $612K of $750K raised with 31 hours to go? Is there something I don't understand there?
EDIT: Realizing that mods might change the title at any time, it is right now "Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying"
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#3I'm impressed that they made it as far as they have. $612k puts them in the top tier of all Kickstarter projects, but unfortunately they look to have set their goal too high. Maybe they can pull a Clang and raise a ton of money in the last 24 hours, but I'd be surprised to see that happen. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
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#4Dying? At $612K of $750K raised with 31 hours to go? Is there something I don't understand there? EDIT: Realizing that mods might change the title at any time, it is right now "Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying"
With 31 hours to go. If they don't raise $138,000 in 31 hours they get squat.
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#5For some reason, I thought it relates to the concept of copying the brain of the dead to the computer so that they can live on as disembodied souls in the computer.
It just turns out to be a kickstarter project for a powerful computer.
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#6Dying? At $612K of $750K raised with 31 hours to go? Is there something I don't understand there? EDIT: Realizing that mods might change the title at any time, it is right now "Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying"
They only have 31 hours left to raise the rest of the money. Considering they fact that they took several weeks to reach this point it seems unlikely that they will hit the goal, and therefore they will not secure any of the pledged funds.
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#7I'm happy to see it get more attention, but to say it is "dying" is a bit hyperbolic. Sure, the Kickstarter campaign seems like it's unlikely to meet its target.
But from the sounds of it I don't think the company behind it will just give up if that happens. I know for my part if they put up another campaign, preferably with a longer lead time, elsewhere and/or take pre-orders, I'll commit again and I'm sure a lot of the other people who signed up will too.
I think it was unfortunate that they didn't release all the material they've released in the last few days right at the beginning of the campaign, though - they'd likely have done better. They've also clearly had a hard time explaining to people what it's for, which is a pity. I don't think the 16 core version by itself is all that interesting from a performance point of view, but I'm interested in the architecture in the hope that they manage to pull of the 64 core version and larger.
EDIT: It's added $20k in the hour since I wrote this - happily it looks like it's got a good chance to succeed.
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#8Hasn't Amazon already done this with EC2?
(Edit: Written in response to the title.)
Re: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying
#9For some reason, I thought it relates to the concept of copying the brain of the dead to the computer so that they can live on as disembodied souls in the computer. It just turns out to be a kickstarter project for a powerful computer.
It's not so much that it's a powerful computer, but a computer architecture that can scale up to be a very powerful system. The version they're trying to fund is a cost reduced version including their 16 core chip. They also have a 64 core chip, and plan to scale it much higher.
It's differentiated from GPU's in that each core is a simple but fully independent CPU core, with direct access to main system memory AND to the memory of the other cores.
This current project is most interesting as a means for people to start playing with the architecture rather than for the raw performance.
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#10I'm impressed that they made it as far as they have. $612k puts them in the top tier of all Kickstarter projects, but unfortunately they look to have set their goal too high. Maybe they can pull a Clang and raise a ton of money in the last 24 hours, but I'd be surprised to see that happen. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
I think they'll make it easily, sort of like what happened to Dalton Caldwell's App.net ... they got a ton of support in the last 12-24 hours.