It has now been 3 years since we launched the Parallella project on Kickstarter with the lofty goal of “democratizing access to parallel computing”. Starting with a clunky prototype and an understaffed team in 2012, Parallella has come a long but as the saying goes: “the proof is in the pudding”. This post shares some of the stuff in the Parallella pudding….
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This letter arrived in my inbox last week and it totally made my day!! The author agreed to have the letter published, so here it is…. “I saw your post at eetimes.com: http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1327192& Your project, the Parallela, was the first Kickstarter campaign I joined. For me, the price was right, and as a EE, I was impressed with the…
I am very happy to tell you that the first Parallella Technical Conference (PTC ) (or “parallella meetup” if you like) will be held on May 30th in Tokyo, Japan!! A thousand thanks to Masafumi Ohta (who organized the first Raspberry Pi meetup in Japan) and RS Components for helping out with the organization of the event! DesignSpark announcement from Masafumi Ohta (in…
I am thrilled to report that we have now shipped over 10,000 open source Parallella boards and they are being put to great use in parallel computing research projects all across the globe. It’s amazing to think that this parallel computing platform was created through a crowd-funded effort on Kickstarter! More details about active research areas for Parallella can…
The goal of the Parallella project is to democratize access to high performance computing and this is only possible if the whole world has the option to buy a Parallella board. Through the Kickstarter campaign and pre-orders Adapteva has shipped Parallella boards to over 2,000 customers in 75 countries but the logistical burden has been overwhelming. I am extremely pleased…
When we created the Parallella project on Kickstarter two years ago, the goal was to democratize access to high performance computing. To accomplish this goal, we knew that we had to make the Parallella platform completely open and as affordable as possible. 2012 Parallella Kickstarter Promises: Open Access: Absolutely no NDAs or special access needed! All architecture and SDK documents…
When we launched the “$99 Parallella project” on Kickstarter in 2012, the goal was to “democratize access to supercomputing”. With a $99 price point, we knew that we would not make a profit, but we figured the value of reaching the whole world with our technology was enough of a reward for Adapteva as a company. With over 8,500 boards…
I am very pleased to announce the we have completed our Kickstarter and pre-order shipments and we are ready to reopen the Parallella shop this Friday at 1pm EST! Since January we have shipped over 8,000 Parallella boards to Kickstarter backers and pre-order customers all over the world and there are now 25,000+ people with expressed interest in purchasing a…
Brian Guarraci is a software engineer at Twitter and in his spare time he’s building a Parallella cluster with a design that was inspired by two of the most iconic supercomputers ever made. When we saw pictures of Brian’s cluster we were impressed and when we shared these with the community, it became apparent that we were not the only…
An introduction to how the Parallella board FPGA can be configured for “headless” operation (no HDMI controller) and alternative expansion. The Parallella’s Zynq chip provides not only a dual-core ARM processor and peripheral interfaces such as Ethernet and USB, but also a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) that greatly increases the flexibility of the platform. In Zynq parlance these are termed…