A 4-way cluster backplane

[Transcendental]

[Sundance]

Hi Everybody,

The critical components - the Parallella itself! - has started to ship in quantities now, so maybe the time is right ?

The biggest question is really if we can get enough commitments to build a batch of 100x of these??
- and until Adapteva has shipped the entire backlog, it might be difficult.

Flemming

[Janos]

[alex999]

Hi Sundance,

just checking... I see that the 4 way high-speed back pane was discussed last in 2012. Any chance there might still be something happening around this? I would gladly pay USD 150 - 200 for this kind of solution. More if it had an integrated power supply/fan system (so that I can stop fooling around with these things myself)

Thanks, Alex

[Sundance]

Hi Alex,

The 4-way back-plane/break-out is not commercial viable, as expectation of actually selling price is too low; your 'pledge' of UDS150.00 would just about pay for the cost of components, assembly, test, etc. - and I appreciate that it sounds strange that a Parallella is USD99.00, but a simple board like the 4-way cluster would be USD299.00.

I believe that Adapteva will soon start to ship a breakout as seen a specification on the Forum


Furthermore.. - it's not a good idea - as connectivity between DSP Cores is restricted

What really would be a good idea is a Parallella as a Host Controller with an ARM + Master Epiphany and then mount this on a board with 4x Epiphany chips with dual-pipe, but that, I am afraid, is not commercial viable either - as would be in the region of USD999!

Flemming

[alex999]