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Interesting "Competitors" for the Raspberry Pi

wallarug

It is interesting to see what people are comparing to the "An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!" to these days.

 

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-touted-in-kickstarter-project/

This article is talking about a $99 dollar supercomputer that has 16 cores @ 700MHz each.

 

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/28/09/2012/54676/raspberry-pi-gets-a-competitor.htm

This article is about an ARM board, not that different to the Raspberry Pi but with more power and RAM.

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  • This article is talking about a $99 dollar supercomputer that has 16 cores @ 700MHz each.

    The big problem I see with that one is that it's a dual core A9 arm with 16 additional cores that you probably won't be able to use for anything much, effectively similar to the Pi's GPU. There's no detail of exactly what these extra cores are, but the implication is that thery're OpenCL compute processors.

     

    Still, a dual core A9 with 1G of ram and Gigabit ethernet for $99 actually seems quite decent.  More details needed obviously - like does it have GPIO - but it's certainly worth watching.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Still, a dual core A9 with 1G of ram and Gigabit ethernet for $99 actually seems quite decent.  More details needed obviously - like does it have GPIO - but it's certainly worth watching.

    The article does not have that many details:

    Parallella devices would be fully functioning computers, shipping with an Ubuntu 11.10 port to ARM, with 1GB RAM, two USB 2.0 ports, 16GB of MicroSD storage, HDMI, and Gigabit Ethernet.

    You could look into GPIO for this device.  I will too.

  • in reply to wallarug

    Fergus Byrne wrote:

     

     

    Still, a dual core A9 with 1G of ram and Gigabit ethernet for $99 actually seems quite decent.  More details needed obviously - like does it have GPIO - but it's certainly worth watching.

     

    The article does not have that many details:

     

    Parallella devices would be fully functioning computers, shipping with an Ubuntu 11.10 port to ARM, with 1GB RAM, two USB 2.0 ports, 16GB of MicroSD storage, HDMI, and Gigabit Ethernet.

     

    You could look into GPIO for this device.  I will too.

    I found details: It does have GPIO:

     

    ...the Parallella board packs an ARM processor onto a credit-card sized form-factor with a wodge of memory, general-purpose input-output capabilities, and various ports. Where the Parallella differs, however, is in its performa...

    http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/09/28/adapteva-parallella/1

  • in reply to wallarug

    I found details: It does have GPIO:

     

     

    ...the Parallella board packs an ARM processor onto a credit-card sized form-factor with a wodge of memory, general-purpose input-output capabilities, and various ports. Where the Parallella differs, however, is in its performa...

    Right, let me phrase that differently... does it make those gpio available on a connector similar to the Pi ?   From the couple of articles that's not entirely clear.  Big diference between having gpio and making them available on a connector

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  • in reply to wallarug

    I found details: It does have GPIO:

     

     

    ...the Parallella board packs an ARM processor onto a credit-card sized form-factor with a wodge of memory, general-purpose input-output capabilities, and various ports. Where the Parallella differs, however, is in its performa...

    Right, let me phrase that differently... does it make those gpio available on a connector similar to the Pi ?   From the couple of articles that's not entirely clear.  Big diference between having gpio and making them available on a connector

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