A Busy Week for Announcements!
FMC daughter card complete with an Epiphany IV 64-core chip In a post on Adepteva’s website on Tuesday Roman announced that they had completed integration of the Epiphany IV 64-core chip with the...
View ArticleBuilding on The Opportunity at Hand
Parallella is much more than simply a hardware project, and software that is able to harness the power of massively parallel systems is going to be crucial to achieving our goal of making parallel...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code Opportunities
Two open source projects which will be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013 are inviting applications from students interested in Parallella related projects. In both cases the...
View ArticleCommunity Software Projects Round-up
Over the past few months momentum has been building in the community, here is an attempt at providing a round-up of current software projects and I’ll apologise in advance for any omissions! APL Dr...
View ArticleCommunity Update
It’s been a little while since I posted an update and what follows is outline of just some of the more recent activity in our community. Rev0 experiences, object detection and loaders In August notzed...
View ArticleDriving a Display with I2C and LCDproc
Hooking up an LCD to display real-time system information. This post takes a look at how you can access the Parallella I2C bus via a breakout board, use it to interface a 16 character x 2 line LCD,...
View ArticleCases and Cooling
Now that production of the Parallella has been ramped up and boards are shipping in volume to Kickstarter backers, it seemed like a good time to take a look at the currently available case options and...
View ArticleFPGA Bitstreams, Headless Configuration and Expansion
An introduction to how the Parallella board FPGA can be configured for “headless” operation (no HDMI controller) and alternative expansion. The Parallella’s Zynq chip provides not only a dual-core ARM...
View ArticleMy Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time
Brian Guarraci is a software engineer at Twitter and in his spare time he’s building a Parallella cluster with a design that was inspired by two of the most iconic supercomputers ever made. When we...
View ArticleCooling and Monitoring the Temperature
While the Parallella board is capable of delivering industry leading GFLOPS/watt performance (doing more with less energy), it is a small and densely populated board and it’s vital that adequate...
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