Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

[Henry Millican <henry@tehserv.net>]

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Parallella seems very cool. I'll probably pick one up when I have free
time.

I've worked with the Zynq chip on board, which is also great. For $99 it's
one hell of a dev board, considering you get an FPGA with hard ARM cores,
as well as the Ephiphany chip.

The Ephiphany processor fills in the gap between CPU and FPGA tasks in my
opinion. Things that would require complex state machines on an FPGA could
be done in parallel on the RISC cores very easily (and quickly). I can
imagine doing some image processing or something (that doesn't lend itself
well to FPGAs) of the like with this.

I'll be following you guys and may have time to contribute, but I am just a
hardware guy after all.
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Henry


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Shane Morris <edgecomberts@gmail.com>wrote:

> Oh, its ok. I like the GSoC idea. I just don't think I'm GSoC material,
> I'm hardware type, even if I will be a uni student this year going forward
> - "If it draws blood, its hardware" as the old maxim goes.
>
> The Parallella board is US$99, a far more modest investment in hardware
> than a GizmoBoard as I had previously suggested, and packs more power for
> the price, in terms of coding value. Whether it could be accepted as a
> coding project of the type for GSoC, a mentor for it found, and other
> logistical concerns are a issue for the GSoC organisers, but I suppose,
> could it happen?
>
> An abstract topic for the time being.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:06 PM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>
>> > Thoughts? Comments? Critique? Flames?
>>
>> I guess this is the real value of efforts like GSOC, if only they
>> could be extended to a much greater public either with an infinite
>> budget or by pushing a far more socially-aware ethos.
>>
>> I'll refrain from pontificating further.
>>
>> ++L
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