Category: Hardware
Creating a $99 Parallel Computing Machine is Just as Hard as it Sounds
Adapteva Ten months ago, the chipmaker Adapteva unveiled a bold quest—to create a Raspberry Pi-sized computer that can perform the same types of tasks typically reserved for supercomputers. And… they wanted to sell it for only $99. A successful Kickstarter project raised nearly $900,000 for the so-called “Parallella,” and the company got to…
Read MoreLive From SUSECon: Brazilian Credit Union Saves Millions With Linux on System z
Claudio Kitayama of Sicoob and Thiago Sobral of SUSE told the tale at SUSECon on Wednesday of how Linux on IBM’s System z saved the fast-growing Sicoob credit union, and how it became the second-largest Linux on System z installation in the world. Sicoob (Credit Unions System for Brazil) is the sixth largest…
Read MoreWorld’s First Open Source Laptop Gets Wideband Software-Defined Radio
When Bunnie Huang first announced the Novena laptop back in December 2012 it was like an early Christmas present to hackers the world over. This was true even though there was only a suggestion that, given sufficient demand, a limited number maybe made available. The idea of a laptop that is as open…
Read More3D Printing’s Success Points to a Rosy Future for Open Hardware
It’s no secret that open source has shaken up the software world, not least for the savings it’s brought both organizations and consumers. Now it’s starting to look like open source hardware could have a similar, game-changing effect. Though still nowhere near as ubiquitous as FOSS, open hardware is gaining ground rapidly…
Read MoreThe Linux Supercomputers We Secretly Fear Will Become Sentient
Every year, the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers is released. A list filled with machines containing tens of thousands of nodes and capable of cranking out enough petaflops per second to make your head spin. And, of course, this list is absolutely dominated by machines powered by Linux. This is…
Read More$99 Parallella Supercomputer has Successful Launch After 18 Months
Back in January of last year I wrote about an ambitious new project that set out to build an affordable, open parallel computing platform, which some three months previous had completed a successful Kickstarter campaign and raised almost $900,000 in order to fund its development. A great deal has happened since then and unfortunately…
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