Parallella reached $750k funding goal • Hacker News Board

Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal

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Post by alexchamberlain » Sat, Oct 27, 2012, 2:26 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #17

alexchamberlain wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Building the community will be the success or failure of this project. We've seen it with the Raspberry Pi and (to some extent) Ubuntu. They aren't the best products in their field (IMHO; I've not made anything better), but they have the best community. These days that means more than a mail list; it's the forum and Q&A (stack exchange) sites as well. Dear Founders, please please set up a Q&A site. They are much more…

Some bits[1] of the Ubuntu community are decidedly sub-optimal. Less bad than other parts of the Internet, but still not what I'd use as an example of good practice. [1] Sprawling support, often including support from people who know very little about Linux or Ubuntu; gently toxic development lists.

I think Ask Ubuntu is good; of course, you need to watch the reputation of answerers.

Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal

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Post by jws » Sat, Oct 27, 2012, 2:32 PM UTC

topbanana wrote: post #12

Seems like a lot of pent-up demand. What are the practical applications of something like this?

Mine will be using a digital radio front end to simultaneously decode a large number of frequencies and monitor them for content.

Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal

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Post by new299 » Sat, Oct 27, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

It's a shame they didn't hit the 3m goal. The device they were going to build them seemed more competative. I think the 16 core device will probably be an interesting toy though. Wrote my thought up here:

http://41j.com/blog/2012/10/my-take-on-the-adapteva-parallel...

Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal

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Post by wtracy » Sat, Oct 27, 2012, 6:34 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #15

tarkus wrote: post #5

I just cancelled my pledge, feel free to get that (it's a $99 level pledge)

You pledged just to see the project succeed ?

I could see that. I pledged at the "cluster" level ($1000) when the project looked likely to fail, then when it crossed the finish line I backed off to the "personal cloud" level ($500).

Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal

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Post by malandrew » Sat, Oct 27, 2012, 9:14 PM UTC

alexchamberlain wrote: post #8

malandrew wrote: post #4

Congratulations. I was a doubter in the first thread on Parallela, but I'm very impressed and happy that you guys achieved your goal. I'd love to hear more about your plans to build a community around the boards now. I'm working on building a community around a yet unreleased but announced open source project myself ( http://famo.us/ ) and I'm in the early stages of planning everything. Check out The Art of Community…

Building the community will be the success or failure of this project. We've seen it with the Raspberry Pi and (to some extent) Ubuntu. They aren't the best products in their field (IMHO; I've not made anything better), but they have the best community. These days that means more than a mail list; it's the forum and Q&A (stack exchange) sites as well. Dear Founders, please please set up a Q&A site. They are much more…

Do you see anything wrong with using StackOverflow to manage community Q&A over self hosted?

Also, are there any good self-hosted versions of StackOverflow? Is there a way to use SO on your company site in a way that works as a portal to SO, but with all the Q&A visibility limited to tags/queries relevant to your product?

Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal

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Post by malandrew » Sat, Oct 27, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #17

alexchamberlain wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Building the community will be the success or failure of this project. We've seen it with the Raspberry Pi and (to some extent) Ubuntu. They aren't the best products in their field (IMHO; I've not made anything better), but they have the best community. These days that means more than a mail list; it's the forum and Q&A (stack exchange) sites as well. Dear Founders, please please set up a Q&A site. They are much more…

Some bits[1] of the Ubuntu community are decidedly sub-optimal. Less bad than other parts of the Internet, but still not what I'd use as an example of good practice. [1] Sprawling support, often including support from people who know very little about Linux or Ubuntu; gently toxic development lists.

I think any community the size of Ubuntu is going to have parts that are sub-optimal. I think it's unavoidable at that scale.

Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal

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Post by hn_is_vile » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 9:42 AM UTC

topbanana wrote: post #12

Seems like a lot of pent-up demand. What are the practical applications of something like this?

Signal processing immediately comes to mind, and that is the use I am planning to put the chip towards. An associate of mine has developed a new method for signal decomposition on non-linear signals which FFT is not suitable for, and which is able to split the processing into parallel streams of processing. Because the chip consume so little power, you will be able to build high performance processing into a small portable box that can run on batteries or USB (depending on how power efficient the final chip is, but they are currently talking about 2 watts).