45ghz $199 "supercomputer"

[aaa801]

Anyone had a look at this

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone

Is it suited for bitcoin mining ?

[hamdi]

for mining not,
but for rendering video/images sure mega!

[aaa801]

for mining not,
but for rendering video/images sure mega!

Mhm, it has opencl support for the 64 risc cores, should be good for something

[luffy]

great for ltc and sc mining

[Zeek_W]

Seems interesting. They are essentially cutting an AVNet ZedBoard down from $395 to $99 with their own daughter boards.

The chip on the daughter board has some nice specs:

    64 High Performance RISC CPU Cores
    800 MHz Operating Frequency
    100 GFLOPS Sustained Performance
    1638 GB/s Local Memory Bandwidth
    102 GB/s Network-On-Chip Bisection Bandwidth
    6.4 GB/s Off-Chip Bandwidth
    2 MB On-Chip Distributed Shared Memory
    2 Watt Maximum Chip Power Consumption
    IEEE Floating Point Instruction Set
    Fully-featured ANSI-C/C++ programmable
    GNU/Eclipse based tool chain
    Source synchronous LVDS off chip links for host or direct chip-to-chip interfacing.
    Chip to chip links for integrating up to 64 chips on a single board
    324-ball 15x15mm flip-chip BGA

Source: http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/e64g401/


It doesn't look good for the kickstarter (they need $750 000 and only have $200 000 so far) - I hope it goes through.

[quasarbtc]

Seems interesting. They are essentially cutting an AVNet ZedBoard down from $395 to $99 with their own daughter boards.

The chip on the daughter board has some nice specs:

    64 High Performance RISC CPU Cores
    800 MHz Operating Frequency
    100 GFLOPS Sustained Performance
    1638 GB/s Local Memory Bandwidth
    102 GB/s Network-On-Chip Bisection Bandwidth
    6.4 GB/s Off-Chip Bandwidth
    2 MB On-Chip Distributed Shared Memory
    2 Watt Maximum Chip Power Consumption
    IEEE Floating Point Instruction Set
    Fully-featured ANSI-C/C++ programmable
    GNU/Eclipse based tool chain
    Source synchronous LVDS off chip links for host or direct chip-to-chip interfacing.
    Chip to chip links for integrating up to 64 chips on a single board
    324-ball 15x15mm flip-chip BGA

Source: http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/e64g401/


It doesn't look good for the kickstarter (they need $750 000 and only have $200 000 so far) - I hope it goes through.

I agree, it doesn't look so good right now. Do you think they'll get a boost from releasing their documents (which occurred today, I believe)?

[SysRun]

Does anyone still trust kickstarter?

[quasarbtc]

Does anyone still trust kickstarter?

Since they've clarified,

"Kickstarter does not guarantee projects or investigate a creator's ability to complete their project. It is the responsibility of the project creator to complete their project as promised, and the claims of this project are theirs alone."
http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#Acco

So, there is little reason to trust anyone. Although later on the same page, they do state that the creators agree to some type of obligation to deliver rewards or offer refunds to backers.

I'm surprised by how quickly it has evolved into a purchasing-oriented rather than donation-oriented system, but people tend to prefer tangible rewards if offered, I suppose.

[Kaliecious]

Would you want something back if youinvested in a company? I would, why invest if tthat doesnt happen?
If there is a possiblblty woudt happen I would be better off keepin my 100K a year income in alow intrest
savings.

[Zeek_W]

Seems interesting. They are essentially cutting an AVNet ZedBoard down from $395 to $99 with their own daughter boards.

The chip on the daughter board has some nice specs:

    64 High Performance RISC CPU Cores
    800 MHz Operating Frequency
    100 GFLOPS Sustained Performance
    1638 GB/s Local Memory Bandwidth
    102 GB/s Network-On-Chip Bisection Bandwidth
    6.4 GB/s Off-Chip Bandwidth
    2 MB On-Chip Distributed Shared Memory
    2 Watt Maximum Chip Power Consumption
    IEEE Floating Point Instruction Set
    Fully-featured ANSI-C/C++ programmable
    GNU/Eclipse based tool chain
    Source synchronous LVDS off chip links for host or direct chip-to-chip interfacing.
    Chip to chip links for integrating up to 64 chips on a single board
    324-ball 15x15mm flip-chip BGA

Source: http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/e64g401/


It doesn't look good for the kickstarter (they need $750 000 and only have $200 000 so far) - I hope it goes through.

I agree, it doesn't look so good right now. Do you think they'll get a boost from releasing their documents (which occurred today, I believe)?

They are up to $300k now.

Interestingly check out their survey responses - some people are wanting it for Bitcoin:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts

[kjj]

800 MHz times 64 cores is 51,200,000,000 instructions per second.

SHA-256 takes about 3000 instructions per round, and has 64 rounds, so 192,000 instructions per hash.

Gives about 266 kilohashes per second, per chip.  Not great for mining.

[runeks]

Once multi-threaded signature verification becomes standard in the Satoshi client, one of these $99 boards (given they reach their target) might be able to verify enough transactions per second to maintain the block chain if/when transaction volumes start reaching high levels. That's pretty cool for a $99 computer.

[luffy]

they are near $500k and 2 more days to go!
i don't see how the $750k will be reached unless a "big fish"
awakes the last moment

[Zeek_W]

they are near $500k and 2 more days to go!
i don't see how the $750k will be reached unless a "big fish"
awakes the last moment

I think if they showed more practical uses for it they would make the funding

[malevolent]

Damn, half a million is already a lot, it would be nice if someone with a quarter of a million appeared now.  

[Mushoz]

Sounds like a fun supercomputer project. How well would this perform compared to say a quadcore ivy bridge processor on perfectly threadable workloads?

[Meatball]

Does anyone still trust kickstarter?

I was just thinking the same thing.  Kickstarter has about a year left before it starts to implode due to people losing all trust with them.  Unless they do a better job of vetting what gets up there, noone will want to use it anymore.

[Mushoz]

Does anyone still trust kickstarter?

I was just thinking the same thing.  Kickstarter has about a year left before it starts to implode due to people losing all trust with them.  Unless they do a better job of vetting what gets up there, noone will want to use it anymore.

What did they do that would cause people not to trust them? I haven't heard about kickstarter until now, so I don't have a clue, but on the outside it sounds like a very cool way to get funding for projects like these.

[runeks]

they are near $500k and 2 more days to go!
i don't see how the $750k will be reached unless a "big fish"
awakes the last moment

I think if they showed more practical uses for it they would make the funding

I think the point is that it's mostly a research project. Ie. the device is intended to discover what people would actually use 64 cores for. Currently there aren't many processes that would be sped up with this kind of configuration. It's a chicken-and-egg problem.

[ewibit]

They are up to $300k now.

now @$674k and 27 hours to go...