Adapteva computers

[joeyjojo]

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!

 

[joeyjojo]

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?