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SUMMARY:The Progress of Parallella
DESCRIPTION:Really? Can “One Man in his garage” out-compute the ‘Big Boys’? \nCome one\, come all to see! \n  \nAll at our usual Organ Grinder… \nJust look for the Penguins and Linux! \n  \nA Few More Details\n\nJust for a giggle: (YouTube) Mythbusters Demo GPU versus CPU\n(YouTube) Parallella Introduction\nMix ‘n’ match your SISD\, SIMD with your own MIMD or even MPMD?… (All summarized as “Flynn’s taxonomy“)\nWhatever did happen to the Transputer and Occam?…\nSince then\, we have the rise of the GPGPU…\n(YouTube) Parallella – Supercomputing for Everyone\n\nBut why would you want to? \nEspecially so when we have (cheap\, fast\, high performance) GPUs and such as:  \n\nIntel’s Knights Landing: Fresh x86 Xeon Phi lineup\nThe 1\,000 core chip\n\nAnd also\, inexpensive yet very capable FPGA development boards such as the Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard and very many others! \n  \nAnd now more recently: \n\n(YouTube) COPRTHR-2: Programming Parallella Is Easier Now\nParallella RISC-V project – Week 11 of GSoC 2016\nEpiphany-V\n\n  \nWhatever next?…
URL:https://nlug.ml1.co.uk/event/the-progress-of-parallella
LOCATION:The Organ Grinder\, 21 Alfreton Road\, Canning Circus\, Nottingham\, NG7 3JE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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