/prog/ - [HARDWARE] Supercomputing chip

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 0:40

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/

Finally, a high-performance board that doesn't require closed-source governmental-spyware binary blobs. Too bad it only has 1 GB of RAM ;[. It's probably going to be great for cracking keys or 3d rendering, though.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 1:01

2012 Year Of The FOSS Firmware H264 Graphics Accelerator

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 1:22

I'll gladly trade my Lemote Yeeloong 8133 for a laptop powered by this provided that no extra evil closed-source firmware is required to run it.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 2:18

>>2
H264 technology is a solved problem. The problem is the software patent situation that restrict the free exchange of H264 technology.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 3:33

>>4
that restrict the free exchange of H264 technology.
Given how software is protected by free speech, it's probably trivial to circumvent the issue by distributing sources only.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 5:59

90 GFLOPS
Holy fucking shit, now I can finally run my genetic algorithms in reasonable time!
And it focuses on floating point rather than primitive integer shit!
Shut up and take my money! I'm gonna build a skynet!

Name: 1989 called 2012-10-27 6:05

>>1
All I heard was
Blah blah blah

It is still 2012, and none of these have been massed produced:
http://opencores.com/projects

If you donated, enjoy hopes and dreams. At the least the church gives you bread and wine.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 6:35

>>5
I'm pretty sure that only works in the USA.

>>6
Whoa, I never thought of using it for neural networks. Great idea, someone should drop mentifex a line about it.

>>7
All I heard was (...)
Read my fucking post, turbogay. It's about escaping from the evil claws of treacherous closed-source firmware and GPU drivers.

It is still 2012, and none of these have been massed produced:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRISC#Commercial_implementations

Name: 7 2012-10-27 7:01

>>8
Chillax,
I got your high-performance request. But THERE ARE TON OF MULTICORES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN MASSED. I am not talking about commercial client-client solutions, but mass productions, like eggs.

I still your agree with your hope. I am a mormon too.

opencores.org/donation, and opencores.org/donation,faq
Still waiting Leah moe'te

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 7:26

>>9
I don't see how opencores.org is even related to Parallella considering how they don't currently plan on open sourcing the chip Verilog sources themselves.

0/10 shitty troll

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 16:53

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 19:01

closed-source governmental-spyware binary blobs
Fuck off, Ahmed.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 19:30

>>12
I'm not the jew spammer, fagshit. Enjoy blinding trusting your government and corporations, sheep turd.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 19:33

Who would run ubanto on this? That piece of shit is more freedom-encroaching (and uses more memory than) fucking Vista.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 19:37

>>13
U MENA THE JEWS

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 19:39

>>14
It's a supercomputer you faggot. That shit doesn't matter.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-27 19:49

>>14
If Ubanto runs on it, then so does Debian. And I'd like to port my homebrew LoseThos-like to it.

>>15
The Christian right is about as dangerous (if not more) as the alleged global ``jewish conspiracy''.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 4:11

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 4:36

>>17
Because Christians are shabbos-goyim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5RSsvClQQ

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 7:35

Reality check: the high end i7 chips shit all over this toy, so I fail to see how this changes anything other than needing to subdivide your work into many more threads in order to be effective.

It's cool because it's cheap and uses little energy, but let's be hones here.

If you want FLOPs, get a GPU.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 9:17

>>20
This thing might be cheap, but it's actually more expensive in terms of price:performance than GPUs. For example, the AMD Radeon HD7970 is capable of 4.3TFLOPS, and costs approximately $450 (depending on where you buy it, and which vendor you choose, since AMD only makes the GPUs, not the actual video cards).

$450 for a card capable of 4.3TFLOPS (which you can overclock to probably get around 4.5TFLOPS) is approximately $100 per TFLOP.
The Parallella is $100 for 90GFLOPS, meaning over $1100 per TFLOP.
Only retards would buy into this shit. But hey, that's Kickstarter in a nutshell.
Just learn OpenCL and use AMD GPUs for ``supercomputing''.

Name: >>21 2012-10-28 10:55

It might be cheap, but it is Albeson cheap?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 12:07

>>20
You've never written code for GPUs in an HPC environment. They're a non-portable fucking pain in the ass.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 12:21

>>23
Even bitcoin miners don't have a problem with GPGPU stuff. Go back to scrubbing toilets, ``please''.
Also, stop this guerrilla marketing for this shitty Kickstarter project, Parallella devs.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 15:49

What's with the retarded hype about parallel architectures?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 17:42

This thread...
dejavu...

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 18:37

>>20
And might I ask, where shall you purchase a motherboard that accepts a Intel i7 chip and doesn't require closed-source firmware (i.e. BIOS) to run?

>>21
Has AMD published the specs required to write fully-functional GPGPU software for their cards? Are any binary blobs required to run them?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-29 5:19

>>27
And might I ask, where shall you purchase a motherboard that accepts a Intel i7 chip and doesn't require closed-source firmware (i.e. BIOS) to run?
http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2012/04/02/google-releases-sandybridge-support-for-coreboot/

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-29 9:08

>>28
2012/04/02
It sure is taking a while for, uh, any model to get on the coreboot laptops list.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-30 0:40

>>29
The specs for some of those chips are unreadable even by the people who wrote them. This shall not come to pass.

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