(From Kickstarter Update) Dear Friends and Backers, Last week we reached a MAJOR milestone. We finished shipping the bulk (97%) of the Kickstarter rewards!! The 64-core boards are in the final stage of assembly and should ship late this week or early next week. At this point if you signed up for a 16-core board (as a Kickstarter backer) and…
Now that production of the Parallella has been ramped up and boards are shipping in volume to Kickstarter backers, it seemed like a good time to take a look at the currently available case options and cooling requirements. The board can be used without any sort of enclosure, but it’s obviously important to ensure that it’s placed on a dry,…
(Kickstarter update #53) I am extremely happy to announce that the 64-core Parallella board is alive and well!! The 64-core and 16-core Parallella computers share the same PCB design and on paper “it should have been” a very simple bringup process. The picture you see above is a 64-core Parallella board with a socket soldered onto the board to allow…
Hooking up an LCD to display real-time system information. This post takes a look at how you can access the Parallella I2C bus via a breakout board, use it to interface a 16 character x 2 line LCD, and then drive this via the LCDproc software. Although there are many other types of display that could be interfaced via I2C…
Dear Parallella Customer, We are happy to announce that after an endless string of challenges and unlucky events, the Parallella board is finally moving into production! We are now building 1,400 boards a week and have started shipping mass quantities to Kickstarter backers, many who have waited for almost 18 months. Many of you have now waited for 9 months…
Introduction The COPRTHR® SDK provides libraries and tools for developers targeting accelerators and co-processors. The SDK is freely available under the open-source GPLv3 license. COPRTHR version 1.6 has been updated to support Parallella. In this blog post I present a quick overview of the support for Parallella provided by the SDK. API Support The SDK provides several APIs for programming…
The COPRTHR SDK provides many libraries and tools that support Parallella and the Epiphany processor, including STDCL, baseline OpenCL support, and compiler tools for a standard compilation model. A programming introduction for Parallella will be available soon providing a guide for getting started using the high-level tools that are available. In this post I discuss recent efforts to refactor the…
One of the most active Parallella forum members “@shodruky” received a board a few days ago and check out what he did! Simply Amazing! @shodruky played around with the board to try to reproduce what we did for the Kickstarter demo video last year. We still have some tuning left to optimize performance, but it’s not a bad start. We…
The initial batch of the “hopefully final” Parallella boards came back to today and they work great! No smoke on power-up, everything that worked on the Gen1 board still works, and…. ..we have a complete Parallella computer including USB peripherals and an HDMI screen output!! Over the coming days we will continue testing and qualifying the Parallella boards coming off…
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…
