[HARDWARE] Supercomputing chip

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.

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.