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

[Peter Bart]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:12:56 -0400
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:

> 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.

	Mine's just a regular pink 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
> 
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