The Progress of Parallella

Really? Can “One Man in his garage” out-compute the ‘Big Boys’?

Come one, come all to see!

All at our usual Organ Grinder…

Just look for the Penguins and Linux!

A Few More Details

• Just for a giggle: (YouTube) Mythbusters Demo GPU versus CPU
• (YouTube) Parallella Introduction
• Mix ‘n’ match your SISD, SIMD with your own MIMD or even MPMD?… (All summarized as “Flynn’s taxonomy“)
• Whatever did happen to the Transputer and Occam?…
• Since then, we have the rise of the GPGPU…
• (YouTube) Parallella – Supercomputing for Everyone

But why would you want to?

Especially so when we have (cheap, fast, high performance) GPUs and such as:

• Intel’s Knights Landing: Fresh x86 Xeon Phi lineup
• The 1,000 core chip

And also, inexpensive yet very capable FPGA development boards such as the Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard and very many others!

And now more recently:

• (YouTube) COPRTHR-2: Programming Parallella Is Easier Now
• Parallella RISC-V project – Week 11 of GSoC 2016
• Epiphany-V

Whatever next?…