$99 Parallella Supercomputer is Now Open Source Hardware

This sounds really interesting, but does anyone know how useful it is in practice? 90 GFLOPS doesn&#x27;t seem that high compared to e.g. high end i7s, though I imagine there&#x27;s a lot of variability in how that&#x27;s actually calculated.<p>Also, if it is as fast as claimed, surely 1GB of memory would be a large limiting factor?

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Slightly off topic, but when I saw the power distribution bus with nine different outputs for this tiny little thing, I contemplated that we&#x27;ve come a long way from when I was a kid and everything ran off a single 5 volt ttl bus. It seems the more people say analog is dead, and thats all I&#x27;ve heard my entire life, the more you actually need analog EEs.

Very interesting. This is even less expensive than the Zedboard and it has the multi-core unit as well. I think the Zynq is pretty awesome but man, I don&#x27;t think Xilinx could have made using it any more complicated if they tried!

Would this be a good fit for something like video processing? Could you use the GPIO pins to actually have a video input, and then send it out via HDMI?

I think if they had opensourced this from the beginning their kickstarter campaign would have been even more of a success

The parallella + john the ripper google SoC project sounds neat:<p><a href="http://www.parallella.org/2013/06/12/google-summer-of-code-projects-with-openwall/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parallella.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-summer-of-code-p...</a><p>I have an old 65k+ passwd file that I have always wanted to get to 100% cracked paaswords (purely for sentimental reasons.) Unfortunately I bet that implementing DES is not a huge priority.

They haven&#x27;t actually published the design&#x2F;source files for the coprocessor itself, have they?

I don&#x27;t understand electronics component pricing. The entry level board cost $99, but the cheapest Zynq-7 costs over $100 (Octopart)? Or maybe it&#x27;s just Xilinx. How does Adapteva manage these prices?

If they have not done so already, low latency traders should be all over this thing. Much easier than trying to do it with just FPGA&#x27;s.