[Crib-list] CRiBB Seminar -- DATE: Friday, September 5th, 2014 -- TIME: 12:00 Noon in Bldg. 32, Room 141 (Stata Center)

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		   COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND Seminar

DATE:		Friday, September 5, 2014
TIME:		12:00 Noon
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 141 (Stata Center)
 		(32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA)

 	[Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-141]


Title: 		Presenting Parallella, the crowd-funded open source
 		supercomputing project


SPEAKER:	 Andreas Olofsson  (ADAPTEVA)

ABSTRACT:

Making parallel computing easy to use has been described as "a problem as 
hard as any that computer science has faced". The goal of the Parallella 
project is to democratize access to parallel computing through affordable 
open hardware and open source tools so that the whole world can 
participate in solving this grande challenge problem. The Parallella is an 
open-hardware credit card sized single board computer that includes an ARM 
host processor, FPGA logic, and a massively parallel multicore RISC 
processor from Adapteva. The Parallella project was launched on 
Kickstarter in the fall of 2012 at an entry price point of $99 each. 
Parallella boards have now shipped to over 7,000 backers and partners in 
75 countries and to over 200 Universities. The talk will give an in depth 
technical review of the Parallella platform and will conclude with 
examples of active research projects that have benefited from the 
Parallella project.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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