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 title:  "Parallella: A Supercomputer?"
-date:   Dec 28, 2014
+date:   Jan 3, 2015
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   display_name: 'sipp11'
 categories: Kickstarter review
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-### Impression
+> ARM board with 16-core Epipany RISC processors
 
 #### Delay
 
+I got this in March, 2014 while the promised delivery date was May 2013. The product was unique enough to make a year delay feasible. However, the ebook, Intro to Parallel Programming, which was add-on, was no where to be found. There was even no word about it. I doubted that they would care writing one or issuing $25 refund anymore. I might be wrong though.
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+### Impression
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+Parallella was even better than its spec. Xilinx Zynq 7010 turned out to be Zynq 7020. This 7020 board alone was worth $99 already.
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+[![Parallella top](/sites/2015/01/parallella/top-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/parallella/top.jpg) [![Parallella ports](/sites/2015/01/parallella/port-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/parallella/port.jpg)
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+[![Parallella GPIO](/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio.jpg)
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 ### Price
 
 $99 for Parallella-16 (with Zynq-7020 & GPIO) at Kickstarter and $249 at [Parallella store](http://www.parallella.org/product/parallella-16-embedded-platform/) for a comparable model