Parallella: An open hardware platform for teaching parallel programming
Making parallel computing easy to use has been described as "a problem as hard as any that computer science has faced." The goal of the Parallella project is to democratize access to parallel computing through affordable open hardware and open source tools so that the whole world can participate in solving this grande challenge problem.The talk will give an in depth technical review of the Parallella platform and will conclude by showing real parallel code samples written for Parallella in bare metal threads, MPI, OpenCL, and Java 8 fork/join.
Author:
Andreas Olofsson
Andreas Olofsson (@adapteva) founded Adapteva in 2008 with a mission to create a new class of low power parallel processors. Andreas is the architect and designer of the Epiphany processor chips, currently the world's most energy efficient microprocessors in the world. In the fall of 2012, Adapteva launched the Parallella parallel computing project with the goal of producing a $99 credit card sized "supercomputer" that consumes less than 5 watts. Prior to starting Adapteva, Andreas worked at Analog Devices for 10 years developing energy efficiency DSPs and mixed signal SOCs. Andreas holds a BS degree in Physics and BS/MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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