Posts by Andreas Olofsson

Update #39: A Much Overdue Parallella Hardware Update

First of all, we apologize for the long interval between Kickstarter updates. We do post news and updates almost daily...

Benchmarks comparing the Raspberry Pi to the Parallella

Benchmarks comparing the Raspberry Pi to the Parallella

During the process ofย  testing and validating the Parallella boards we ran a lot of open benchmarks from http://openbenchmarking.org/.ย  It...

Epiphany System Calculator

This calculator illustrates how the Epiphany architecture can be scaled up to create very powerful computers that consume a modest...

Computer Cost of Ownership Calculator

Computer Cost of Ownership Calculator

It’s easy to forget how expensive it can be to operate a computer over time. Inefficient computers without effective sleep...

Silicon Cost Calculator

This calculator gives a rough estimate of the manufacturing cost of unpackaged semiconductor chips. Wafer prices aren’t something that is...

Update #38: Shipping Parallella to early Kickstarter backers!

Update #38: Shipping Parallella to early Kickstarter backers!

Last week we put together the first large scale Parallella cluster. The system consisted of 42 Parallella boards (for a...

Update #37: Parallella: An Open Source Hardware Project

Update #37: Parallella: An Open Source Hardware Project

We are proud to say that we have now published all the hardware sources for the first version of the...

Update #36: Progress report and shipping update

Update #36: Progress report and shipping update

We are happy to announce that we can finally offer updated delivery schedules with some confidence. We wish we could...

Update #35: Parallella now runs Ubuntu!

Update #35: Parallella now runs Ubuntu!

Great news, the Parallella is now a real computer!! The gigabit ethernet port is working and the full Ubuntu desktop...

Update #34: Parallella runs Linux!

Update #34: Parallella runs Linux!

We are making progress! This picture shows bare-bone Linux up and running on the Parallella board. To get this far...