I was almost joking and you have a point. +1 Mike On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> I think the only thing "super" about this is the marketing ploy getting people to buy them. :) > > > I thought the superness derived from the idea that one could put many together, fairly inexpensively, and get a lot of cores for low cost: > > http://adapteva.myshopify.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-cluster-kit > > If you run a real supercomputer, you will pay a *lot* for power, but this little bugger can't be using all that much. > > For my work I have been using real supercomputers and need a few gigs of RAM per core, but I could probably figure out ways to get the work done by writing my own C programs to process the data with much less RAM per core. If I were doing that, I can see how this little thing might work for me. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list