[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.

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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''.