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JJW009

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26 GFLOPS for $99 and 5 watts

A kick-start project for a $99 "super computer" quite similar to the Pi, but with a powerful multi-core numeric processor:

https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/s ... ercomputer

The Pi may enable lots of people to learn computing, but this is about learning parallel computing. The entire planet has a shortage of parallel computing skills; you just need to look at your task manager to see that!

I have no idea what I would do with one :cry:

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Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:06 pm

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26 GFLOPS for $99 and 5 watts


	JJW009 wrote: A kick-start project for a $99 "super computer" quite similar to the Pi, but with a powerful multi-core numeric processor: https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/s ... ercomputer The Pi may enable lots of people to learn computing, but this is about learning parallel computing. The entire planet has a shortage of parallel computing skills; you just need to look at your task manager to see that! I have no idea what I would do with one

Run RISC OS. That is what ARM chips were built to do :-)

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Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:17 pm

JJW009

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Re: 26 GFLOPS for $99 and 5 watts


	paulzolo wrote: Run RISC OS. That is what ARM chips were built to do

The ARM chip is only there to organise stuff though. The power comes from the 64 core
Epiphany chip. You'd need a version of RISK that was designed to use it, or you may as well use a Pi.

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Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:59 pm

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26 GFLOPS for $99 and 5 watts

Be a fun erlang box that's for sure.

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