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Maybe somebody else on the list will be interested in this
kickstarter I've signed up for. It is like a Raspberry Pi on
steroids (or whatever Lance was taking):<br>
<br>
Parallella
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone</a>)<br>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/zynq-7000.htm"
target="_blank">Zynq-7010 Dual-core ARM A9 CPU<br>
</a></li>
<ul>
<li>ARM CPU <br>
</li>
<li>FPGA Programmable logic equivalent to 430k ASIC gates, (peak
of 74 GMACs within the Zynq proc).<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/"
target="_blank">Epiphany Multicore Accelerator (16 or 64
cores)</a> giving 24GFLOPS of floating point for the small
model, 90GFLOPS for the big one.<br>
</li>
<li>1GB RAM </li>
<li>MicroSD Card</li>
<li>USB 2.0 (two) </li>
<li>Two general purpose expansion connectors</li>
<li>Ethernet 10/100/1000</li>
<li>HDMI connection</li>
<li>Creditcard sized <br>
</li>
<li>Runs on 5W <br>
</li>
<li>Ships with Ubuntu OS</li>
<li>Ships with free open source Epiphany development tools that
include C compiler, multicore debugger, Eclipse IDE, OpenCL
SDK/compiler, and run time libraries. </li>
<li>Dimensions are 3.4'' x 2.1'' </li>
</ul>
Even if your don't need the floating point or FPGA logic, a dual
core ARM board with Gigabit Ethernet and a heap of programmable
logic for $99 is pretty good.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
PS. What does everybody think of Raspberry Pi's drivers being
released under a FOSS license? Delivery is now pretty good - I got
the new 512MB version from Element 14 in 3 days.<br>
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