Posts by Andreas Olofsson

Parallella 3 Year Anniversary

Parallella 3 Year Anniversary

It has now been 3 years since we launched the Parallella project on Kickstarter with the lofty goal of “democratizing access...

Ten things you should know about Parallella

Ten things you should know about Parallella

#10. Best Price Performance There are cheaper single board computers out there, but starting at $99 the Parallella board is...

Epiphany ABI Change Proposal

Epiphany ABI Change Proposal

In order to improve software performance in the current silicon and to make forward binary compatibility practical, I am proposing the following changes...

Kickstarter Hardware Economics 101

Kickstarter Hardware Economics 101

  Some time ago I wrote an article at EETimes about running a hardware Kickstarter campaign. Unfortunately, it seems that...

9 Small Companies Poised to Reshape HPC Hardware

9 Small Companies Poised to Reshape HPC Hardware

Adapteva highlighted by THE PLATFORM as one of 9 small companies poised to reshape HPC.  “To address the much larger...

$99 Parallella Fire Sale

$99 Parallella Fire Sale

  Those of you that know me well understand that optimism is probably simultaneously my biggest strength and biggest weakness.:-) Without...

Supercomputer.io: “It’s alive!”

Supercomputer.io: “It’s alive!”

During the Parallella Technical Conference on May 30th we ran the first official live test of supercomputer.io. The whole experiment has...

Announcing the Parallel Architectures Library (PAL)

Announcing the Parallel Architectures Library (PAL)

We have shipped well over 10,000 Parallella computers across the globe and we are now ready to move on to...

What I learned building a parallel processor from scratch

What I learned building a parallel processor from scratch

A few weeks ago I gave a talk to a group of graduate students at Chalmers University of Technology in...

An Introduction to Semiconductor Economics

An Introduction to Semiconductor Economics

This blog post is in response to a recent topic on the Parallella forum regarding Adapteva’s chip cost efficiency (GFLOPS/$):...