Re: [oshug] The Parallella project

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 17:44 +0100, Nigel Worsley wrote:

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The Parallella board will cost $99 and offer 50 GFlops/Watt, consuming a maximum of 5 Watts.

Not quite. The 50 GFlops/Watt figure is for the Epiphany-IV chip, this project says it will use the older Epiphany-III.

It looks like the Parallella will use a 16 core device delivering 32 GFlops, or 6.4 GFlops/Watt - still rather impressive though!

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for spotting that - I got carried away.

I see there could be boards next spring with the 64-core Epiphany-IV chip on if they meet stretch funding goals.

But as you note, the 16-core chip for $99 is still pretty impressive. It'll be one of these I'll bring along to OSHUG.

Best wishes,

Jeremy