Adapteva computers

joeyjojo · 19 Sep 2013 at 17:13

Just found this from the CPU section

http://www.adapteva.com/
http://www.adapteva.com/parallella/

Their current product will do 90 GFLOP/s while consuming 5 W of power, which is 45 GFLOP/s/W, or about 2.5 times more efficient than a GTX Titan (the most power efficient GPU).

I wonder if it could be used for DC? I'd love to pick up a little board for $100 if it can be put to good crunching work!

RHS · 19 Sep 2013 at 22:33

It's an interesting piece of kit. I might do some testing on my raspberry phi to see how the software config works out.

joeyjojo · 20 Sep 2013 at 09:03

RHS said:
It's an interesting piece of kit. I might do some testing on my raspberry phi to see how the software config works out.

How much similarity is there with the raspberry pi? It looks like these are meant to run Linux off a MicroSD Card on the ARM A9, and then compute on their specialised chip (the "Epiphany").

Presumably any parallel workload suitable for a GPU would run well on this?

Biffa · 20 Sep 2013 at 10:00

Probably if they can get it running under OpenCL it should be a no brainer for some projects.

However you have to realise that they are only selling 16 chip boards now for $99 which only does 32 GFLOPS Peak Performance

Its the 64(66) core boards that do 90Gflops so who knows how much they will cost :eek:

An AMD 7970 does 3584 SP and 896 DP GFLOP/s