[Fsuk-manchester] "supercomputing" (was: Open ARM GPU drivers)

[Dave Love]

Andrew Back <address@hidden> writes:

> You may also like to take a look at the Parallella board:
>
>   http://www.parallella.org/board/

I saw it go past, of course.

> The 16-core Epiphany floating-point hardware provides 25 GFLOPS and
> since its MIMD will be easier to program for a broader variety of uses
> than a GPU.

I'm supportive of this sort of thing, and it looks to have a better free
software story than GPUs, but I wish it wasn't labelled "supercomputer".
[Quoting FLOPS isn't useful without saying if it's single or double
precision with actual performance on BLAS and FFT.  I couldn't find that
sort of info about it.  32-bit systems are non-starters anyway for
general-purpose HPC, I'm afraid.]