The fabs are back and as you can see we have made a late change to the look of the Parallella board. It’s now blue! Interestingly enough I don’t think the question of color ever came up once during the last year. Hopefully most of you won’t mind the change. Designer’s choice:-) The changes made to this RevC board (or…
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One of the primary goals of the Parallella project is to advance the use of parallel computing across the industry and across the globe. We are pleased to report that since opening up the store for Parallella pre-orders at the end of July, we now have 120 universities and research institutes as customers. They are now anxiously waiting for the…
Parallel programming can be very difficult, but it can also be very, very simple. Executing a thousand independent programs that don’t depend on each other in any way is not that difficult if the right infrastructure is available. An operating system performs multiple tasks concurrently all day long without us noticing. Sure, sometimes we’ll run into performance problems or all-out…
As we launch the Parallella board to the world over the coming months, we felt it was only fair to this amazing piece of hardware that it receives and identity comparable to that of other famous and well known products like the Linux penguin, the Nike Swoosh or the Open Source Hardware gear-logo. At Adapteva, parallel processing is the core…
Parallella Hardware Status Since late July we have sent out approximately 40 Parallella boards to early-backers and driver developers/volunteers. Before sending out some of these early boards, we did spend a week “dog fooding” the Parallella boards and we can conclusively state that as long as they are well cooled, they are solid! With hardware, you know you are…
Last week we put together the first large scale Parallella cluster. The system consisted of 42 Parallella boards (for a total of 756 CPUs), with the total power consumption coming in under 500 Watts. This makes it possibly one of the densest clusters in the world thanks to the Parallella board! We have been drinking the Parallella cool-aid for a…
We are proud to say that we have now published all the hardware sources for the first version of the Parallella board on Github, making the Parallella a proper open source hardware project. The first beta version of the board will go out to early backers soon! We have also updated the detailed specification for the final Parallella board. This…
Great news, the Parallella is now a real computer!! The gigabit ethernet port is working and the full Ubuntu desktop version is up and running! We had some scary moments this week, but in the end everything worked out. Sometimes it’s really worth considering the old advice “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Amazing how the most innocent of design…
The Parallella Board Has Arrived! DAY 1: The first 10 Parallella boards arrived on Thursday 4/11 and we fired up the first boards around 1:30pm. Some very nervous moments followed…but no smoke was coming out of the board! We would like to say that everything worked perfectly out of the box..but that wasn’t quite the case. Fortunately we decided to…
While you are waiting for news about the Parallella board power-up, you might want to check out these latest developments. A Parallella Platform Reference Design: A how-to guide for building a headless Parallella written by Roman. The source code for the HDL logic used to interface the Zynq to the Epiphany has been released with a GPL license. A Guide…