Parallella: supercomputing for the masses?

(GIZMAG): A Kickstarter campaign seeking to build a US$99 “supercomputer for everyone” saw its funding target of $750,000 comfortably met on Saturday, raising just shy of $900,000 in pledges. The Parallella is billed by its designers at Adapteva as an affordable, open and easy parallel computing platform based on the company’s own multicore Epiphany chips. FULL ARTICLE