[H-GEN] Linux and high-performance computing

John Keogh jwkeogh at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 07:12:47 EDT 2015


I found this a while ago which may be of interest at
https://www.parallella.org/board/

The Parallella Board
• 18-core credit card sized computer
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 1GB SDRAM
• Micro-SD storage
• HDMI, USB (optional)
• Up to 48 GPIO pins
• User configurable hardware (FPGA)
• Open source design files
• #1 in energy efficiency
• Starting at $99
They also do a 16 Core and a 64 Core versions.


On 1 September 2015 at 09:21, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>
wrote:

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> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 21:55 +0100, Benjamin Fowler wrote:
> > Does anybody have any suggestions on how I might get familiar with
> > modern high-performance computing architectures?
>
> I know very little about scientific computing architectures, but I can
> tell you one thing - there has been a revolution in scientific
> computing, and it wasn't driven by the big iron you are referring to.
>
> It has been driven by GPU's.  It's entirely because of cost.  You can
> purchase a GPU and put it to work for, well nothing really because
> modern CPU's have them built in.  At the higher end a couple of $K will
> get you 1000 cores with more internal bandwidth than the big iron could
> have dreamt about a decade ago.
>
> Teaching yourself to program GPU's isn't hard - there are lots of
> tutorials on the web.  I can't recommend any - so just google it.
>
> Also there have been several talks at recent LCA's on the subject.  Here
> are a couple:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhwJUdmwDGU
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUWfl92sqjY
>
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