Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

[Primoz128]

This is a KICKSTARTER project and really interesting one so i wanted to share, cause i thought you people as programmers would want to know about it.

LINK: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada ... r-everyone

[Nituvious]

...But can I play space invaders on it?

[Bisonte]

If this is so "revolutionary", why the industry (AMD or INTEL or others) are not interested ?

[jamirokwai]

Probably, because AMD and Intel offer CISC-CPUs, not RISC...
Just optimize your CPU to calculate 100s of add, sub, div, mul per cycle simultaneously. This way, you get some serious speed increase, I think, compared to the much more complicated x64 and such.

[Primoz128]

Bisonte:

Because AMD, Intel got their slow performance increase per year plans for good money earning and they wana make money.

[Thade]

If this is so "revolutionary", why the industry (AMD or INTEL or others) are not interested ?

What a Question ...

You cannot imagine, that someone invents something without giving his knowledge to the big guys? You mean new companies shall not be founded? Everbody who invents something must ask the big guys first?
If you invent a new sort of beer (to stay off topic) and you know people will like it, would you expect that Carlsberg or some international beer company would finance you or is interested in your product? And if they are not interested your beer is bad?

Better write nothing than such a nonsense ... my 2c

The world lives from innovations - your comment is negativ and pessimistic and doesnt help anybody - with your attitude we were still hanging in the trees

[Bisonte]

Moooooment.....

I only ask this, because the past shows, that good ideas where mostly captured by "big guys"....

Exceptions proves the rules.

[Primoz128]

Some large hostility i sense in the topic's posts :O.


Also you can use OpenCL which apparently can use CPU for many stuff and thus i guess play games... IDK, it's on linux.

[Joakim Christiansen]

They will receive money from me!
I like this idea and I love messing around with MCU's already, so this will be nice to get my hands on in the future!

[Primoz128]

You can also help the way i did, by telling other people about it, i did it over here and on game maker community but a soul seen that there anyways cause they are careless kiddo community.

I haven't donated myself yet, but i will in next week 120 dollars, if it reaches 3 million ill raise to 250, cause i want 64 core one, but anyways ill be very happy with 16 core one which is few Ghz stronger than my I7 930 and i can make programs withought problems and hardwork that use all 16 cores, unlike my I7 ^^.

[Thorium]

That Epiphany chip is very interessting. Thanks for the info, i will keep an eye on it.

Probably, because AMD and Intel offer CISC-CPUs, not RISC...
Just optimize your CPU to calculate 100s of add, sub, div, mul per cycle simultaneously. This way, you get some serious speed increase, I think, compared to the much more complicated x64 and such.

Actualy x86 isnt exactly CISC anymore since the Pentium Pro. Intel adapted a lot of ideas from the RISC concept. Also ARM adapted ideas from the CISC concept. The line between both cencepts is very blurred today.
Fact is current x86 cores can do many more operations in parallel than current ARM cores. With more instruction pipelines, wider SIMD registers and downbreaking of instructions into micro ops.
The problem is, they need a lot more space and energy in comparision.