News Adapteva Parallella promises pocket-sized supercomputing

bet this would be great for almost anything computer related!

 

i'd get some if i had a need and budget fo custom made software. i dont. surely by the time you spend £50k developing your software... you could have bout some bulldozers.

 

Given the press this is getting I was hoping they would have a wider range of examples available online. The performance is promising but the specific details are a bit vague. How does one of these 64 cores compare to say a core in dual/quad core ARM for example? They've shown off a simple math example, but how about something that's a bit more 'Wow!' guys.

 

Not impressed at all! Look at the video, is uber SLOW !

 

Yeah, but it doesn't have the GPU muscle the RPi does. It'd be great for...uh...um...hm. Let me get back to you on that.

 

For $100, that is actually pretty cheap and a better value than almost any other ARM platform.

The problem is if the performance-per-watt is worth it. An intel or possibly AMD system might be a better choice in the end. Lets hope phoronix tests this out, they did a pandaboard cluster pitted against some intel processors and didn't prove to be a better investment, although it wasn't explicitly worse either.

Since this new board has all these cores on 1 system, it's bound to have much better ppw than the pandaboard cluster.

 

Playing pretty fast and loose with the term "super computer" I think.

 

^^^^^

If this is a super computer, what's mine? Future technology?