[Arm-netbook] Adapteva Parallella: Thoughts?

[Russell Hyer]

Hrm... I just browsed their github for fft (just to get a feel for
their examples) and it's hopelessly overly complicated. If I
accidentally inherent 99 USD, I might get one and speed up some
algorithms, but I generally speed up my algorithms by making them do
less work :)

Russ

On 28 December 2016 at 19:50, Russell Hyer <russell.hyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks Andrew for the hat-tip (I'd tip mine if I had one)
>
> On 28 December 2016 at 19:33, Andrew M.A. Cater
> <amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:20:05AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>> ---
>>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:02 AM, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Obviously it's been mentioned before, since it's on the <a
>>> > href=http://rhombus-tech.net/adapteva/>wiki</a>.
>>> > There isn't much information on the page however.
>>> > The core doesn't work standalone, however it is completely open with
>>> > an HDL and a schematic; it is in the direction that a puristic libre
>>> > system would be if not "technically" all the way there. The board
>>> > itself has both(I think?) an arm and a x86 on board, simply because
>>> > adapteva is too new to have enough libraries ported for a full os (I
>>> > think?).
>>> > Now their boards are $99 which is a jump from $40, so my question
>>> > would be was price differential the reason why it wasn't included or
>>> > where there too many compatibility/tooling issues?
>>>
>>>  i believe i spoke to them (it may have been a different company), if
>>> i recall correctly (which i probably don't) their core PCB (which they
>>> haven't released) is 12-layer, which means "insanely expensive to
>>> produce".
>>>
>>>  mostly it's down to practicality of cost, and time.  if people offer
>>> to *pay* for these boards to be made, i'll get them done, no problem.
>>>
>>
>> Lovely board, lots of potential - but no community because it's hard
>> to program the fast cores - lots of low level C programming to make
>> best use of it, though someone did do a GNURadio port for Google
>> Summer of Code a while back
>>
>> I was a Kickstarter backer - but chickened out of the significant
>> porting effort needed. The orignal Kickstarter board came without
>> significant heatsinking so needed extra fan cooling. There was
>> an Ubuntu port for it - and it would probably run Debian with no
>> huge problem - armhf.
>>
>> It's an ARM, FPGA and then however many Epiphany cores - Anders
>> Olofssen (? spelling ?) built his ideal system for signal
>> processing tasks because he couldn't find the necessary for his
>> Ph.D - the paraphrase on lack of community is from his site.
>>
>> Ericsson and others have, however, funded additional R&D so
>> they've got to 1024 core boards. Really useful for a compact
>> supercomputer / specialist 5G hardware but fairly tough
>> for pretty much everybody else to get a toehold because the
>> initial learning curve is non-trivial.
>>
>> Andy C.
>>
>>
>>> l.
>>>
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