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The Big Brain now has competition!

Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
edited 2013-07-26 14:52 in General Discussion
The Big Brain now has it's work cut out to catch up with the new kid on the block.

The first large scale Parallella cluster : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts/547314?ref=email&show_token=bc038ae3a26eb599

Comments

  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-07-25 11:38
    I don't know how smart the parallela cluster can be, the write up says its pretty dense.
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2013-07-26 14:52
    Competition is always welcomed! The Parallela dense machine looks great with 42 boards and 756 processors. It will be interesting to see how efficiently the 16 core chips program and hold up.

    How do the Propellers add up? The Propeller Powered Big Brain supercomputer stock unit has about 30 boards, over 100 eight core props, 800+ processors (cogs), 719 gpu processors, over 110,000 Vprocessors, paralleled Mac INTEL and ATOM clustered computers, coming in at an approximate total of over 111,520 processors. A supertronic enhancement convention increases processors significantly. I'm not at the lab now but I'm guessing its pushing 200,000. The dream is to reach one million processor density, obtainable with Prop 2s. More expansions are scheduled for this summer and fall seasons.
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