[hpsdr] Supercomputing for Everyone

[n0tvj at atmc.net]

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Hi Guys/Ladies just wanted to give an update on a new toy which
may give us a  new platform to use with our various SDR's.
I received A Parallella board in the mail yesterday afternoon.
It uses Epiphany multicore chips which make it simular in performance to
25 Rasberry Pi's. It is a completely open source device using Linux  as an 
OS.
It has Gigabit Ethernet , USB 2.0, Micro SD, HDMI and GPIO interfaces.
I took part in a "Supercomputing for Everyone" Kickstarter and pre-order
program in the first part of 2013, Had nearly forgotten about it when the 
box
showed up yesterday. Thought that only $100 was too good to pass up for such 
a board.
My plan is to set up a version of ghpsdr using one or more Parallella boards 
as
servers and one or more rasberry pi's client's. Will use one of my existing
Hermes Module's as the radio part on a  local Gigabit Ethernet Lan.
(initial look at software favors ghpsdr3-Qt). Will see as I learn more about
the tools for the project.
Will try to get on teamspeak this week with a status report on progress.
Web link for the Parallella  site is : http://www.parallella.org/
  73's
Al N0TVJ
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Specs on my specific board: E16G301
16 High Performance RISC CPU Cores
Up to 1GHz Operating Frequency
0.5 MB On-Chip Distributed Shared Memory
512 GB/s Local Memory Bandwidth
64 GB/s Network-On-Chip Bisection Bandwidth
8 GB/s Off-Chip Bandwidth
2 Watt Maximum Chip Power Consumption
Fully-featured ANSI-C/C++ and OpenCL
programming environments
Source synchronous LVDS off chip links for
host or direct chip-to-chip interfacing.
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