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Re:Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing har... by AceJohnny2 on Thursday September 27, 2012 @07:02PM (#4583372)
What's wrong with the Parallax Propeller? You can get a starter kit for $25 [1]. Granted, you used to have to program it in its own language, but C compilers are popping up [2]

[1] http://adafruit.com/products/791 [2] http://propeller.wikispaces.com/Programming+in+C+-+Catalina

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Re:Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing har... by wtracy on Thursday September 27, 2012 @07:06PM (#4583385)
The Propeller doesn't have sixteen cores running at 2+ GHz with a gig of ram. The Propeller can't even run a real, modern OS.
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Re:Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing har... by ErrantX on Thursday September 27, 2012 @08:02PM (#4583580)
The Propeller can't even run a real, modern OS

Well... technically neither can this :)

Although they do appear to have got it working really neatly with an ARM-based host board. Which is a step forward.

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