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

[Jonathan Billings]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:24:11PM -0400, Garry Stahl wrote:
> >What application do you have that needs supercomputing?
> Graphics.  I have a decent machine, but I can bog it down with
> enough graphics work.  It would be nice  to not have that happen.

That's not how this hardware works.  I mean, if you look at the specs,
it's just a pretty regular multicore ARM board hooked up to some
specialized chips that run a bunch of efficient cores on a
daughterboard (and eventually an integrated chip).

How is this different than, say, my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 with 1536
cores?  Other than the fact that there's already a (non-open) driver
for the NVIDIA card.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>