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It's a shame they're not making something useless like a video game. Then they'd have millions.
For 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.
Personally, I'd prefer to blame my mental auto-correct. So used to seeing poor / simple grammar mistakes on the internet, I'm in the habit of simply reading in the missing words. In this case, the title wasn't "Parallela: A Supercomputer for Everyone Who is Dying". Which makes this less interesting, but at least this could be real. And from the looks of it, it probably will be.
Could someone explain how this is different from GPU computing and regular multi-core CPU computing? I realize there is a difference...but I'm not quite sure I grasp it yet. GPU computing is a lot of parallel math computations with limited shared memory. I'm assuming the Epiphany CPU is more capable than the simple GPU math units? How's it different from multi-core CPUs? Just the sheer quantity of cores they have pac…
IMO this combines some of the worse features of Cell (e.g. local memory and DMA) and GPUs, and while the power efficiency is good the absolute performance is very low. For a parallel noob who's using OpenMP/OpenCL I don't think it's any better than a desktop PC because programming it is going to feel the same and performance is going to be equal or lower. And if you don't use the libraries then you're in low-level ni…
It's meant to be a development platform for solutions based on their architecture and for people to get familiar with the development model, with an existing 64-core version of their chip and future versions intended to put 1000+ cores on a board as the eventual target.
That it's also a reasonably capable platform to run Linux on (on the ARM chip) so you can do development directly on the board is an added bonus.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO this combines some of the worse features of Cell (e.g. local memory and DMA) and GPUs, and while the power efficiency is good the absolute performance is very low. For a parallel noob who's using OpenMP/OpenCL I don't think it's any better than a desktop PC because programming it is going to feel the same and performance is going to be equal or lower. And if you don't use the libraries then you're in low-level ni…
It's not meant to compete with a desktop PC, or with a mass produced GPU. It's meant to be a development platform for solutions based on their architecture and for people to get familiar with the development model, with an existing 64-core version of their chip and future versions intended to put 1000+ cores on a board as the eventual target. That it's also a reasonably capable platform to run Linux on (on the ARM ch…
Could someone explain how this is different from GPU computing and regular multi-core CPU computing? I realize there is a difference...but I'm not quite sure I grasp it yet. GPU computing is a lot of parallel math computations with limited shared memory. I'm assuming the Epiphany CPU is more capable than the simple GPU math units? How's it different from multi-core CPUs? Just the sheer quantity of cores they have pac…
I've done my master thesis on GPGPU, so maybe I can help out a bit. I'm not yet too familiar with Epiphany's design however. From what I could grasp what sets them apart the most is a different memory architecture compared to multicore CPUs, where the individual cores seem to be optimized for accessing adjacent memory locations as well as the locations of the direct neighbors. This is one point where the architecture…
In the meantime, leave the fast atomic ops, ECC, and full IEEE compliance to the GPUs and Xeon Phis of the world until you have the transistor budget to go after them...
All IMO of course...
I desperately want to see this sort of pricing for cluster computing available in the future, when I have the scratch and knowledge necessary to make these ideas into products.
I think that future is worth skipping the occasional movie or meal to pay into, and I'm looking forward to my somewhat unexpected end of year gift.
Dying? 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"
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-super...
Hasn't Amazon already done this with EC2? (Edit: Written in response to the title.)