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On 16/08/13 21:10, bad apple wrote:
I was a kickstarter so should get my gear this month. The 64 core machine will be a while as they didnt get the funding to develop that and are, barring kickstarter, are trying to bootstrap rather than let others finance and interfere. Their aim for 7nm should provide outstanding (>>Tf) performance for 5W. I've looked at GPU stuff but obviously haven’t found the right ones cos they seem to work out less bang per buck than the parallella board once in a system - I didn’t realise the $99 16 core is in fact a complete computer less power supply/kbd and display. I just hope I can get learn Blender/Elmer and get them working on it by the end of the year - should make a few kids go WOW when they realise they can make their own photo-realistic movies with real physics at home!On 16/08/13 10:58, tom wrote:Just wondering if anyone knows how much power an average laptop cpu and memory. And if its over 5W anyone want to help me stick a parallella board in a laptop? Tom te tom te tomSeems like it would be a natural fit for this: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 I don't fancy your chances of retrofitting one of those inside any normal laptop though (although I for one would certainly be up for helping you *try* to... I mean, why not?) So have you actually got yours delivered yet, you're one of the early backers aren't you - I've been following the Paralella stuff quite closely myself, although I'm not buying until they're more proven, and I'm not interested in anything less than at least the 64 core version. As things stand the cost/performance ratio is still very heavily tipped towards the 1U rackable boxes stuffed with high end graphics cards* or Intel Phi coprocessors my employers tend to favour, mostly because they're fully matured and have integrated development stacks for getting real work done on them, right now. But if Paralella can keep upping the corecount and lowering the price who knows in a few years? Regards * technically they're actually compute cards and don't even have monitor outputs, but you know what I mean.
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