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

[Jeff Hanson]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> Well, most people's multi-core CPUs sit idle 99% of the time, unless
> they're running an app that is specifically made to use multiple
> threads (maybe a game, or specialized software like Matlab).  I really
> doubt the average user would even know how to use a HPC system.
>

It's still useful for multi-tasking.  The Windows systems I fix could
use more cores for services like pr0n spamming, RDC hosting, and
botnets running DDoS attacks.