TECH 2: Adapteva announces first $99 supercomputer boards

GPS · Apr 20, 2013

Chip-company Adapteva has built its first parallel-processing board for Linux supercomputing. Those who had backed the Parallella Kickstarter campaign will be getting their hands on the processor board, named the Parallella, by summer. The company has given us the first proper look at the complete Parallella processing board. Judging by the pictures, Adapteva does indeed seem to live up to its promise of having a credit card-sized supercomputer.

The Parallella has been built with the purpose of making supercomputers more powerful. While Linux was the operating system of choice for supercomputers, building a fast one has always been a tricky issue. According to the company, "The goal of the Parallella project is to democratize access to parallel computing."

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