RE: Parallella - The 64-core mini-computer works in tandem with ARM Cortex-A9

jamodio — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:09:20 GMT

I'm one of their backers on Kickstarter and very anxious to get the board, it will be a very interesting and cost effective platform for compute intensive applications on the embedded side, among them image processing for face recognition and such.

There are some documents available at Adapteva's website http://www.adapteva.com/ and they are starting to relase some drivers as open source https://github.com/adapteva.

Cheers

Jorge

RE: Parallella - The 64-core mini-computer works in tandem with ARM Cortex-A9

DAB — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:10:23 GMT

An interesting idea.

I can see using this approach for image and acoustic processing or any other application where you can really exploit parallel processing.

I am not sure it will make a good internet platform, but with the A9 core processor, it should do very good for normal use.

Game players will love this approach once the game developers learn to use the array of processors.

The key to its success will be the development of useful tools to develop the parallel processing algorithms that can fully exploit the internal capability.

If I can find enough detailed documents on the architecture, I might be able to do a good analysis of the platform and identify any limitations/unexploited capability for the board.

For the money, I can see where the board would be a very interesting system to play with.

Just a thought,

DAB