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I was pretty enthusiastic about Adapteva's kickstarter for their Parallella board, even though I felt like some of the wording they had w...

I was pretty enthusiastic about Adapteva's kickstarter for their Parallella board, even though I felt like some of the wording they had was a bit deceptive. I began to sign on for the 64 core version but I backed out because I got burned by another Kickstarter project around the same time it began to become clear they weren't really going to make it to the funding level they needed for the 64 core version. I forget how long that's been but I have to admit to be being really disappointed that there hasn't been much demonstrable progress. There's still no 64-core version of the Parallella board. There was some talk about an update to 16-core Parallella board but I don't think it's shipped. As far as I know there's still no way to connect multiple Parallella boards using their "e-Link" ports. And lastly no way to assemble a small Adapteva cluster with a more favorable ratio between the Adapteva and Zynq (as far as power, heat and money go) than a stack of the 16-core Parallella boards. Obviously I expected too much and I guess I'm being a tad unfair. That I've seen the dev team have always been decent, reasonable, and polite; so I really hate to write anything negative at all. I just thought they'd be much further along by now and that I might have a mini many-core cluster.

Posted by Quequau on May 26, 2015, 6:50 AM

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I was pretty enthusiastic about Adapteva's kickstarter for their Parallella board, even though I felt like some of the wording they had w...

QuequauMay 26, 2015, 6:50 AM

I was pretty enthusiastic about Adapteva's kickstarter for their Parallella board, even though I felt like some of the wording they had was a bit deceptive. I began to sign on for the 64 core version but I backed out because I got burned by another Kickstarter project around the same time it began to become clear they weren't really going to make it to the funding level they needed for the 64 core version. I forget how long that's been but I have to admit to be being really disappointed that there hasn't been much demonstrable progress. There's still no 64-core version of the Parallella board. There was some talk about an update to 16-core Parallella board but I don't think it's shipped. As far as I know there's still no way to connect multiple Parallella boards using their "e-Link" ports. And lastly no way to assemble a small Adapteva cluster with a more favorable ratio between the Adapteva and Zynq (as far as power, heat and money go) than a stack of the 16-core Parallella boards. Obviously I expected too much and I guess I'm being a tad unfair. That I've seen the dev team have always been decent, reasonable, and polite; so I really hate to write anything negative at all. I just thought they'd be much further along by now and that I might have a mini many-core cluster.

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