Super-computer kickstarter, ending soon!

Hey, and sorry if this is spammy or otherwise inappropriate, but I
just heard about this kickstarter campaign to make a 16-core (and 64-
core coming soon) parallel floating point "supercomputer" running at 1
GHz (!), seems like just the ticket for a lot of music/audio
algorithms, and free open source development tools.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone

They are very close and it seems like great technology and you can get
an actual system for a fairly modest pledge.

-Mike

Am 26.10.12 17:19, schrieb Michael Shonle:
> Hey, and sorry if this is spammy or otherwise inappropriate, but I
> just heard about this kickstarter campaign to make a 16-core (and 64-
> core coming soon) parallel floating point "supercomputer" running at 1
> GHz (!), seems like just the ticket for a lot of music/audio
> algorithms, and free open source development tools.
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone
>
> They are very close and it seems like great technology and you can get
> an actual system for a fairly modest pledge.

Well, I'm not so convinced that there is a big advantage over the 
well-developed highly parallel supercomputer that everybody already has 
on his desk - the GPU. Even the tiniest devices today like smartphone 
GPU's feature quite impressive parallel performance, and when you buy a 
Radeon or nVidia GPU for ~400� you can get a system which beats almost 
any host CPU in peak performance. Plus, the development tools are freely 
available and very advanced (OpenGL, OpenCL, Cuda...)...

What are the pros for this board?

	Christian