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Parallella from Adapteva Arrives at last

Problemchild

After been warned by a customs fee payment I knew this was coming at last  so I've been waiting quite excited for the last few days for my Parallella from Adapteva. This has literally just come through the door so I've not done anything with it as yet but I thought I'd post a few photos of  a real in the wild board.

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No instructions or anything so I was a bit miffed until I saw the URL  on the front of the box! image

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It comes with a heatsink and they recommend a Fan ....looks like hotstuff!

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Access to the main guts from underneath and what looks like the microSD Card as well.

after a year of waiting I may be more excited by the Zynq processor than the Parallella but lets see how it goes!

  • Hi John,

     

    What do you plan to do with the board?

    I am also interested in seeing what the development environment is like.

    I have done parallel processing in the past and it can get very interesting figuring out how to do something in a primitive environment.

     

    Look forward to your posts as you learn how to use this board.

     

    DAB

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    I think the Zynq is doing most of the Donkey work most of the time ..looks like they are even using it for video in which case that may be why it get's hot may well be wound up tight to get a good HDMI bitstream...Squeal Piggy

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    I agree with you John, They supply the Heatsink and say the Fan is optional but when you go on the site it says it's not optional and  with out it the board may fail .... Other note there is no point provided for the Fan I'm non too happy with that.. Also the Download for the boot image is in two parts one the /boot which is the Kernel image and the other the OS which is around 1GB ... Just downloaded it and the Gzip wasn't valid so I don't know if they have a corrupt file or it was done in the Download. total PITA as the WGET command is normally reliable!

  • in reply to Problemchild

    O BTW they seem to have some demo code of implementing "R" functions in Open Cl so it sounds like they have done an OpenCl implementation at very least. Let's hope so since it opens up a load of pre done stuff for them. Mind you I also hope that their cores are more performant than say an Nvidia core otherwise they are basically selling you a G210 card for 99$ rather than £18 that  I've just seen for it !

  • in reply to Former Member

    Agreed that year has been a long time in SBC land the Zynq has found it's self in some sweet comms and test equipment a lot of which is open hardware. So as I said I'm more excited about that at the moment .