This week the Adapteva team put together more Parallella prototypes and configured eight of these into a Beowulf cluster, running an MPI program in order to test that an 8-way configuration using the final boards will work as expected. Once operation of the cluster had been confirmed it was dismantled, those boards should now be on their way to backers…
If you’re a Kickstarter backer and your address has changed since you pledged your support, don’t worry, we’ll notify you once rewards are ready to go out and will give you the opportunity to update your address. There’s no need to send us details of address changes before then. Given the thousands of backers we figured this would be easier…
This week saw the SDK being put through its paces by members of the community. On Monday markd reported that he’d compiled Python-on-a-Chip for Epiphany and was able to run the PyMite interpreter on the simulator, publishing instructions to the forum and putting the source up on Google Code. Sylvain (tnt) had been experimenting with code for complex number processing…
The festive period is usually that time of year when everything grinds to a halt, but this couldn’t be further from the truth in the Parallella project! It’s not even been three weeks since the forums launched and the enthusiasm demonstrated so far has been fantastic, and the uses to which backers have said they plan to put their hardware…
The success of Parallella will depend upon working closely with those developing the languages, frameworks and applications that stand to benefit from a massively parallel processor architecture. With that in mind we’ll be looking for members of the community to take a lead on key technologies, acting as a beacon within our community and liaison with others. We now have…
Today I joined Parallella as community lead, it’s incredibly exciting to be involved in a project with such game-changing potential, and if the support gained through Kickstarter is anything to go by I know I’m far from alone in this sentiment! Over the coming months we’ll be working hard to ensure that everything is in place to enable the community…
PARALLELLA LAUNCHES AT 6pm, on September 27th Initiative to Bring a $99 Parallel Supercomputing Platform to the Masses LEXINGTON, MA – September 27, 2012– Adapteva, a semiconductor start-up company, today announced the Parallella Kickstarter project to build an open and affordable, credit card-sized supercomputing platform that offers a 50x performance boost over existing open hardware platforms like Raspberry Pi….
