The Parallela platform seems to have potential in the future for use with raytracing
as Adapteva are coming out with a double-precision version early in 2013. Given their
kickstarter is approaching its end date and they are still a little bit short of their
target we thought we'd mention this in case any POV users are interested in it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone

Once the appropriate hardware is available the POV team will take a close look at it
to see if it's a suitable target for a port of our software.

-- Chris

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> The Parallela platform seems to have potential in the future for use with raytracing
as Adapteva are coming out with 
a double-precision version early in 2013. Given their kickstarter is approaching its
end date and they are still a litt
le bit short of their target we thought we'd mention this in case any POV users are
interested in it.
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone
>
> Once the appropriate hardware is available the POV team will take a close look at it
to see if it's a suitable target
 for a port of our software.
>
> -- Chris

Hi Chris.

Parallel computing is now inevitable in the near future for number-crunching
apps. Parallela seems to be a promising solution. AFAIK, there are already some
other solutions involving specialized hardware (among them, the GPU-based CUDA).
What about those existing solutions available today?

Bruno.

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Am 26.10.2012 01:14, schrieb Chris Cason:
> The Parallela platform seems to have potential in the future for use with raytracing
> as Adapteva are coming out with a double-precision version early in 2013. Given
their
> kickstarter is approaching its end date and they are still a little bit short of
their
> target we thought we'd mention this in case any POV users are interested in it.
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone
>
> Once the appropriate hardware is available the POV team will take a close look at it
> to see if it's a suitable target for a port of our software.

 From what I've glimpsed from the specs, the individual "crunching 
cores" can't directly access any memory worth mentioning - IIRC it's 
less than a MByte per core. Other cores' memory appears to be 
addressable as well, but with some latency, and it still gives you no 
more than a few MByte.

To me that doesn't sound like an ideal architecture for POV-Ray (or 
raytracing in general) - future improvements to CUDA or OpenCL sound 
like a more promising thing.

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On 28/10/2012 8:14 PM, clipka wrote:
>
>  From what I've glimpsed from the specs, the individual "crunching
> cores" can't directly access any memory worth mentioning - IIRC it's
> less than a MByte per core.

640kb should be enough. :-P

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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On 28-10-2012 21:50, Stephen wrote:
> 640kb should be enough. :-P
>

Ouch! Watch your back and beware of dark places the coming days, 
Stephen... ;-)

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> On 28-10-2012 21:50, Stephen wrote:
> > 640kb should be enough. :-P
> >
>
> Ouch! Watch your back

I have worked for some companies where that is a prerequisite. :-)

> and beware of dark places the coming days,
> Stephen... ;-)
>


know. ;-)

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On 29-10-2012 15:34, Stephen wrote:

> know. ;-)
>

LOL

Thomas

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