[mdlug] Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva — Kickstarter

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 06:04 -0700, David Lane wrote:
> I have looked into high performance computing the question is:
> What application do you have that needs supercomputing?

+1 This is 'cool', but 99.44% of users need a supercomputer as badly as
they need a giant pink inflatable elephant.

But that other 0.56% need one yesterday.

A supercomputer is only useful for problems that can be decomposed in
certain ways [or is worth figuring out how to decompose].  Otherwise an
old-fashioned just-faster-computer is better.

> Has everyone seen this yet?
> This project isn't fully funded yet, but would be an awesome thing to demo at a meeting if/when it delivers.
> The planned OS is Ubuntu 12.10, so it is on-topic.
> I want my own mini supercomputer.
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone