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

[Aaron Kulkis]

Garry Stahl wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 10:19 AM, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Art Dries wrote:
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>> The super-oh-cool thing about this is that from the specs listed, it might
>> be possible to put the whole thing in a laptop case.
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>> Think about that for a moment ... super-computer LAPTOP.
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> We have them, compared to 1968.  But the code is massive, the load is huge and "elegant programing" is a thing of the past.
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> My 1998 Amiga had an image prossing program like GIMP that ran in 2 meg of ram.  It took 10 meg of hard drive space.  GIMP is not better in what it does, and doesn't have some of the features that Image FX did.
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> Give me that degree of programing elegance and I HAVE a super computer.
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Very true.  Most GUI stuff is a complete waste of storage space,
in-core memory, cache space, and clock cycles.