Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

[Richard Haselgrove]

Got mine last Saturday, and only had to pay

Customs Entry £ 8.00
Import Duty £ 1.60
Import VAT £ 40.05
Total £ 49.65

We might have ordered a different selection of paid-for accessories, over and above the original gift/reward.

The backer number - mine was 3662 - was repeated in a 'Parallella Pre-shipping Confirmation' email sent at the end of August 2013. If you didn't respond to that (confirming the delivery instructions) they might not have been able to despatch your card(s).

[Raistmer]

WoW, nice   

14. Recommended Packages (not in default)

sudo aptitude install boinc-client boinc-manager
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
sudo apt-get install openvpn
sudo apt-get install synergy
sudo apt-get install vlc

https://github.com/parallella/parallella-ubuntu

[Raistmer]

BTW, I have some questions regarding Parallella usage.
1) can it be powered via USB only cause I have no adaptor for it?
2) what about keyboard support? Can it be used interactively with keyboard on USB or only network logon possible?

I'm still collecting needed parts for my own...

[Raistmer]

Hi there,

If you own a Parallella please help us build the most efficient virtual supercomputer in the world this week!

Who, what, where, when, why?

http://supercomputer.io

Thanks to the amazing folks at resin.io there is now a containerized application deployment platform for the Parallella board enabling super easy workload scheduling for a fleet of thousands of Parallella across the globe with the push of a button.

We intend to offer "supercomputer.io" capacity for free to academic researchers working in the field of machine learning. Researchers at Google, Facebook, Baidu, and Microsoft are making steady progress with deep learning algorithms thanks to virtually limitless resources.  What if this kind of computing power could be available to all researchers for FREE?

If we can get 1,000 boards connected to supercomputer.io, researchers would have a 18,000 CPU supercomputer at their disposal, putting it in the same class as some of the computers on the Top500 while consuming less than 5 KW. With 2 ARM A9 cores, the Xilinx FPGA logic, and 16 Epiphany CPU cores, this would arguably be the most efficient supercomputer on the planet!

The first live image processing demo of this new virtual machine will be run at the Parallella Technical Conference in Tokyo this Saturday.

How to Help?

Based on conversation with countless Parallella owners over the last year, I can tell you that "time" is a scarce a commodity as ever. If you haven't turned on your Parallella yet, PLEASE help us put it to good use! Too much time and money was spent for the Parallellas to gather dust in some desk drawer. Let's at least build something useful out of it.
Download the special resin.io image from http://supercomputer.io
Burn an SD card
Power up your Parallella and connect it to your router. We take care of the rest.
General Updates

In case you haven't had time to keep up with our daily progress and development over the last year, here is a list of updates that may interest you.

Want to get started with parallel programming?
How the @#$% do I program the Parallella?
Still haven't bought a Parallella?
Ten Reasons to Buy a Parallella
Want to get reacquainted with the Parallella?
The new easy to install SDK and firmware. Much cooler, literally!
Want to meet other Parallella users?
1st ever Parallella Technical Conference May 30th in Tokyo
Looking for Project Ideas?
Parallella Projects Hall of Fame
Working in research, share your work!
Parallella Publications
Want to help us create an open source parallel standard library?
Announcing the Parallel Architectures Library (PAL)
 
Cheers,
Andreas Olofsson
 

How is this different from BOINC?
Popular distributed computing projects like BOINC and Folding@home were designed for standard desktop computers. A new generation of low power embedded computers like Parallella require a new approach that puts more emphasis on small size and ease of deployment.

[Raistmer]

This resin.io is whole new way of scientific apps deployment to user devices.
Perhaps, we should think to take part in that with SETI project too.
BOINC grew from SETI, but SETI should not restrict itself to BOINC