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* [gentoo-user] Parallella supercomputer
@ 2013-07-26 10:56 András Csányi
  2013-07-27 11:34 ` Anton Shumskyi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: András Csányi @ 2013-07-26 10:56 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi All,

What do you think about it?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts/547314

Would it be possible to put Gentoo on it? Worth it purchase one to
play at home? I do not do any extreme stuff, I develop java and I
always wanted to try out the scalability of a JEE application. How
hard a new AS apply into your software environment.

On the other hand, by the time I would pick up some Blender knowledge
and as far as I know it requires processing capabilities.

Thanks in advance!

András

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Parallella supercomputer
  2013-07-26 10:56 [gentoo-user] Parallella supercomputer András Csányi
@ 2013-07-27 11:34 ` Anton Shumskyi
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anton Shumskyi @ 2013-07-27 11:34 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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Hi=) as far as i heard Parallella runs linux kernel on Zynq ARM core ONLY
and Parallella cores act as a co-processor. So you can't get all its fancy
cores out of box=(( you'll probably need to make some extreme kernel +
openjdk hacks (and may be a lot of others).
The main problem is that system runs on ARM core and Parallella cores are
actually OpenRISC cores and i think that linux is not ready for such
multiarch system, but I hope someday it will.
I wanted to get some Parallella boards too, but for my needs maybe couple
of Beagle Bone Black are more appropriate=) It's an ARM Cortex-A8 dev board
with 2 1GHz cores, some 3d accelerator, 512MB DDR3 RAM, 2GB integrated eMMC
storage + microSD slot, LAN, USB host and micro USB client for power and
external PC control, microHDMI and audio through that HDMI, and a lot of
GPIO and other pins. Doesn't have so many cores but 45$ only and it may run
gentoo=) Perfect for scalable OSGi/JEE home cloud.

http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack

(sorry for bad grammar, not my native language xD)

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