Dying? At $612K of $750K raised with 31 hours to go? Is there something I don't understand there?<p>EDIT: Realizing that mods might change the title at any time, it is right now "Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying"
I seem to recall repeatedly reading that Kickstarter projects collect he majority of their funding in the first 72 and final 24 hours.<p>My anecdotal experience backing and following half a dozen projects agrees with this.<p>I'd be quite surprised if this project doesn't make it.
Could someone explain how this is different from GPU computing and regular multi-core CPU computing?<p>I realize there is a difference...but I'm not quite sure I grasp it yet. GPU computing is a lot of parallel math computations with limited shared memory. I'm assuming the Epiphany CPU is more capable than the simple GPU math units?<p>How's it different from multi-core CPUs? Just the sheer quantity of cores they have packed in there?
For some reason, I thought it relates to the concept of copying the brain of the dead to the computer so that they can live on as disembodied souls in the computer.<p>It just turns out to be a kickstarter project for a powerful computer.
At some point in the next 24 hours, the backers who signed up for one unit will need to ask themselves if they would rather have two units or zero.<p>I can't speak for the other 1800 people in my bin, but I just decided on two.
I'm happy to see it get more attention, but to say it is "dying" is a bit hyperbolic. Sure, the Kickstarter campaign seems like it's unlikely to meet its target.<p>But from the sounds of it I don't think the company behind it will just give up if that happens. I know for my part if they put up another campaign, preferably with a longer lead time, elsewhere and/or take pre-orders, I'll commit again and I'm sure a lot of the other people who signed up will too.<p>I think it was unfortunate that they didn't release all the material they've released in the last few days right at the beginning of the campaign, though - they'd likely have done better. They've also clearly had a hard time explaining to people what it's <i>for</i>, which is a pity. I don't think the 16 core version by itself is all that interesting from a performance point of view, but I'm interested in the architecture in the hope that they manage to pull of the 64 core version and larger.<p>EDIT: It's added $20k in the hour since I wrote this - happily it looks like it's got a good chance to succeed.
Several commenters and the OP, seem to think that this Kickstarter will fail. Having backed quite few Kickstarter campaigns, and watched a lot more, this seems unlikely.<p>Backing is concentrated very heavily in the first three days and the last three. Projects that have reached 80% of their funding goal by the last three days are extremely likely to succeed.<p>It seems that many people delay backing till the last minute. Possibly this is just human nature, though the Kickstarter process also means that as the project progresses more information is released in a steady stream, and often new funding levels are created.<p>Additionally backers who really want the project to succeed raise their pledges to help the project succeed.
> we see a critical need for a truly open, high-performance computing platform<p>> FAQ: Will you open source the Epiphany chips?
> Not initially, but it may be considered in the future.<p>Well, that makes it a lot less interesting than I hoped it would be.
Only $99 for the first reward that actually will come with a board to play with. Sounds good to me! I've added $119 (international shipping!) to the total, hope they make it...
If the current trend rate continues, they should be able to reach their goal. If they could somehow get on the Reddit front page it would easily happen. I think there are many who might be interested if they only knew.<p>Here is the trend graph:
<a href="http://canhekick.it/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone" rel="nofollow">http://canhekick.it/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomp...</a>
I think the market is telling these guys: We don't care about computing power. People are getting by with iPads and Chromebooks powered by ARM cores with 1/8 the computing power of an Intel processor.
Don't get me wrong if you want to play around with parallel computing you should love this, and support it. Just don't be surprised when it doesn't reach Pebble funding levels.
It's alive. Alive! Adapteva reached their target; right now they are at $769,996 pledged with a $750,000 goal, which was cleared on october 27th between 2 and 3 am. Not sure what (US) timezone this refers to.<p>Source: <a href="http://canhekick.it/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone" rel="nofollow">http://canhekick.it/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomp...</a>), 13.700 projects graphed). Great project, Daniel.<p>Did not delve into past performance of kickstarter projects, but comments from across the net seem to confirm rrreese's comment: "Backing is concentrated very heavily in the first three days and the last three. Projects that have reached 80% of their funding goal by the last three days are extremely likely to succeed."<p>Canhekickit states several todo's, of which aggregates and prediction would be especially useful.<p>Any comments on how the funding dynamic of future kickstarter/other crowdfunding projects would be affected if this data would be available?
I'm impressed that they made it as far as they have. $612k puts them in the top tier of all Kickstarter projects, but unfortunately they look to have set their goal too high. Maybe they can pull a Clang and raise a ton of money in the last 24 hours, but I'd be surprised to see that happen. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
While I am happy to see another post for this on the front page, I would have preferred a positive post. People jump on bandwagons I would rather we started a positive bandwagon rather then one looking to find the shovels and a decent grave for a awesome project
I did my part. I'm very much the archetypal broke college student at the moment, but I won't always be. I have big plans in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning sectors, and I can't imagine a better, cheaper solution to get started on working with multi-agent systems.<p>I desperately want to see this sort of pricing for cluster computing available in the future, when I have the scratch and knowledge necessary to make these ideas into products.<p>I think that future is worth skipping the occasional movie or meal to pay into, and I'm looking forward to my somewhat unexpected end of year gift.
Argh! I get paid in a couple of days! I was hoping the cash would go into my account before this runs out. Looks like that might not happen now....
Why couldn't you have given us another few days?
Oh well. I bet it'll get funded.