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

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .


 		   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


For information about the CRIBB Seminar, please visit...

 				http://math.mit.edu/crib/