Hi all,
If you haven't seen it, the Adapteva Epiphany low-power multi-core processor is going open source, funded by a kickstarter project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-...
The Parallella board will cost $99 and offer 50 GFlops/Watt, consuming a maximum of 5 Watts.
We've been heavily involved with the Epiphany project since 2008. The team at Embecosm built the GNU tool chain and more recently we've funded research at Bristol University looking at the impact of the compiler on energy consumption.
I'll be talking about Epiphany at the next OSHUG meeting. It is revolutionary, not only in its design and performance, but in the founder's commitment to open source and the way it has been funded right from the beginning. We'll have one there for you to look at!
My colleague James Pallister, will be talking about how compilers can influence the power consumed by a processor, and sharing the results of his open research project at Bristol. He'll have the results for the ARM M0, M3 and A8, XMOS and Eiphany processors.
Look forward to hearing people's ideas of what might be possible with a $99 board with this sort of horsepower!
Best wishes,
Jeremy