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How one person managed to build a supercomputer from Parallella boards While you can build your own Linux

supercomputer using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, even with just Raspberry Pi boards , these dont natively

support massively parallel computing the cornerstone of modern supercomputing. Thats where Adapteva, with its $99

Parallella parallel processing single-board supercomputer comes in.

Andreas Olofsson explained the need for such a board:

It is now possible to buy Parallella computers from Adaptevas website. The credit-card sized Parallella is powered by

Adaptevas breakthrough 16- and 64-core Epiphany multicore processors.

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The first model comes with the following hardware features:

Zynq-7020 dual-core ARM A9 CPU

Epiphany Multicore Accelerator (16 or 64 cores)

1GB SDRAM

MicroSD Card

USB 2.0 (two)

Four expansion connectors [option]

Ethernet 10/100/1000

HDMI connection

These initial boards use Ubuntu Linux. Support for other operating systems will depend on community involvement,

however there have been a number of projects that incoorporate Debian onto these boards.

So how easy is it to build a Supercomputer from these boards? Twitter engineer Brian Guarraci decided to find out just

that. He calls his creation Parallac, and its an homage to supercomputers.

So how does the system

perform? Guarraci says

that Parallac has

achieved around 208

GFLOPs. To put that in

perspective, its roughly

200 times more than the

first Cray-2

supercomputer could

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Historically, serial processing [conventional computing] improved so quickly that in most

applications, there was no need for massively parallel processing. Unfortunately, serial processing

performance has now hit a brick wall, and the only practical path to scaling performance in the

future is through parallel processing. To make parallel software applications ubiquitous, we will need

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manage back in 1985.

Parallac may not be the

fastest supercomputer in

the world today, but its

an amazing example of

just how far weve come

in a relatively short time.

Soon youll be able to

build your very own

Parallac, see his website

athttp://www.parallac.org/

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