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Title: $99 Super Computer
Post by: John on April 16, 2013, 09:15:03 AM

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What Adapteva has done is create a credit-card sized parallel-processing board. This comes with a dual-core ARM A9 processor and a 64-core Epiphany Multicore Accelerator chip, along with 1GB of RAM, a microSD card, two USB 2.0 ports, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, and an HDMI connection. If all goes well, by itself, this board should deliver about 90 GFLOPS of performance, or — in terms PC users understand — about the same horse-power as a 45GHz CPU.

This board will use Ubuntu Linux 12.04 for its operating system. To put all this to work, the platform reference design and drivers are now available.

www.adapteva.com

Title: Re: $99 Super Computer
Post by: kryton9 on September 22, 2013, 08:38:49 PM

Wow, that is something. Bookmarked to keep up on their announcements, thanks.