Get Ready for Parallel Programming, Featuring Parallela
summary
Parallella is a $150 single-board Linux computer with 18 cores (2 ARM, 16 Epiphany), an FPGA and add-on boards like a Porcupine camera carrier. A CPU-bound prime search 0–16M runs serially on Parallella in ~237s, serial on a Mac in ~14s, and using the Epiphany parallel library completes in 18.6 seconds for 0–16M primes (about 1,030,113 primes found). The board runs on about 5 watts power, making low-power parallel experiments practical.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:25Moores Law
- 5:26ParallelISM
- 6:04Concurrency vs Parallelism
- 8:11Energy
- 10:59Risk
- 11:49Arm
- 14:31Running the Code
- 16:55Results
- 18:41Practical Applications
- 22:52Field Programmable Gate Array
- 26:37Parallel vs GPU
- 30:15Pine vs Parallela
- 32:03Conclusion
