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Offline sakthibruce

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Parellela a 16core computer looks like pI
« on: July 18, 2014, 11:09:29 am »
The Parallella is a credit card sized computer developed by Adapteva that includes a dual-core ARM A9 CPU, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and a 16-core Epiphany coprocessor. The Parallella is an extremely versatile platform that can be used as a standalone computer, an embedded device, or as component in a scaled out parallel server cluster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva

16core preocessor alone cost 595$ and every clock of its can run 800mhz only.
http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/featured-products/products/epiphany-iii-samples

Mu question is really worth to buy !?
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Re: Parellela a 16core computer looks like pI
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2014, 06:17:32 pm »
Well - For what?

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Re: Parellela a 16core computer looks like pI
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2014, 06:32:17 pm »

16core preocessor alone cost 595$ and every clock of its can run 800mhz only.
http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/featured-products/products/epiphany-iii-samples

Mu question is really worth to buy !?


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The criticism that the Epiphany chips cannot provide anywhere near the performance of modern supercomputers is nevertheless correct: actually, current Epiphany chips with 16-cores or 64-cores and c. 25 or 100 GFLOPs in single precision, respectively, do not even match the floating-point performance of modern desktop PC processors (Core i7-4770K (Haswell), 4 cores @ 3.5 GHz AVX2: 177 GFLOPS,[23] double precision) - a fact that is acknowledged by Adapteva.

From what I read it depends on why you want to buy this. I'm sure there will be improvements on this...I rather wait.