diff --git a/_posts/kickstartr/2014-12-28-parallella.md b/_posts/kickstartr/2014-12-28-parallella.md index 76e9d56..b4b8316 100644 --- a/_posts/kickstartr/2014-12-28-parallella.md +++ b/_posts/kickstartr/2014-12-28-parallella.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ layout: post status: draft title: "Parallella: A Supercomputer?" -date: Dec 28, 2014 +date: Jan 3, 2015 author: display_name: 'sipp11' categories: Kickstarter review @@ -12,10 +12,23 @@ kickstarter: tags: --- -### 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. + +### Impression + +Parallella was even better than its spec. Xilinx Zynq 7010 turned out to be Zynq 7020. This 7020 board alone was worth $99 already. + +[![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) + + +[![Parallella GPIO](/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio.jpg) + + + ### 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 diff --git a/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio-sm.jpg b/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio-sm.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04b9046 Binary files /dev/null and b/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio-sm.jpg differ diff --git a/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio.jpg b/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9acac1e Binary files /dev/null and b/sites/2015/01/parallella/gpio.jpg differ diff --git a/sites/2015/01/parallella/port-sm.jpg b/sites/2015/01/parallella/port-sm.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a82adb3 Binary files /dev/null and b/sites/2015/01/parallella/port-sm.jpg differ diff --git a/sites/2015/01/parallella/port.jpg b/sites/2015/01/parallella/port.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30d2304 Binary files /dev/null and b/sites/2015/01/parallella/port.jpg differ diff --git a/sites/2015/01/parallella/top-sm.jpg b/sites/2015/01/parallella/top-sm.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a57b2c Binary files /dev/null and b/sites/2015/01/parallella/top-sm.jpg differ diff --git a/sites/2015/01/parallella/top.jpg b/sites/2015/01/parallella/top.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2c3bde Binary files /dev/null and b/sites/2015/01/parallella/top.jpg differ