Raspberry Pi server clusters

Just saw this at Geek Times: ARM, LSI on-chip link connects up to 32 cores

LSI Corp. and Calxeda Inc. are the first chip companies to license from ARM Holding plc a new on-chip interconnect developed for linking up to 32 cores on a die.  ARM's CoreLink CCN-504, delivering throughput in the range of 50-100 Gbits/s, will debut in LSI’s first ARM-based devices to be announced in February.

Did you see this?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=category

Neil Moloney wrote:

 

Did you see this?

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=category

I say that a month ago.  It seems like a great project and I hope this helps with increasing computer performance.

Neil Moloney wrote:

 

Did you see this?

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=category

Here's the latest news on Parallella: http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

According to the article it should ship by summer.

Neil Moloney wrote:

 

Did you see this?

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=category

Here's the latest news on Parallella: http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

According to the article it should ship by summer.

John Beetem wrote:

 

Neil Moloney wrote:

 

Did you see this?

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=category

Here's the latest news on Parallella: http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

 

According to the article it should ship by summer.

There's a new update on Parallella at Geek Times.  All the kickstarter boards should ship by the end of summer.  General availability in October, still for just US$99 if you pre-order.  Information and high-res board photos here.

Just punted up $199 for the one with the Super *** bigger FPGA

The non-kickstarter deliveries are due for October  which may be of interest to those who like me missed the kickstarter

John Beetem wrote:

 

There's a new update on Parallella at Geek Times.  All the kickstarter boards should ship by the end of summer.  General availability in October, still for just US$99 if you pre-order.  Information and high-res board photos here.

You may find this project interesting, Software Defined Radio for Parallella, not only because SDR is nice in its own right but because Sylvain Munaut is programming the FPGA inside the Zynq to provide a high-speed interface to the IQ data of the LMS6002D RFIC.

Also, the RF side is all open hardware supported by full open documentation, so (Xilinx aside) it would seem to combine well with Parallella --- I suspect that this  combination might become a radio amateur's delight.

On a different subject, but on topic for this thread ...

For building HPC clusters, there's probably no other ARM board in Parallella's performance/price league at this time.  The Epiphany array is ably supported by gigabit Ethernet for multi-board interconnect, or even by rolling your own parallel LVDS links with the help of the Zynq's FPGA.  I expect some really interesting clustering projects to come out of this.

That is SWEET ........calm down too many toys not enough time

BTW the Zynq has a 1Ms/s 12 bit ADC I belive with a 8??  channel multiplexer.

That would be good enough for some SDR work if you had some Radio gear to do the initial down conversion.... not bad for a freebie!

John Alexander wrote:

 

That is SWEET ........calm down too many toys not enough time

 

BTW the Zynq has a 1Ms/s 12 bit ADC I belive with a 8??  channel multiplexer.

That would be good enough for some SDR work if you had some Radio gear to do the initial down conversion.... not bad for a freebie!

It has two ADCs, both 12-bit 1 Msa/s, and a 17-channel mux.  The analog inputs can be differential -- I don't know if that cuts down on the number of channels.