Parallella

Once upon a time, supercomputers belonged in the highly secure facilities of well-moneyed tech companies. Today, they can be built at home, as proven by Twitter engineer Brian Guarraci who has built a supercomputer that reaches speeds of 208 gigaflops.

When Raspberry Pi was first unveiled, it was an instant hit due to its genius design as well as affordability. Since then, many products have followed in its footsteps. Adapteva has been working on Parallella, the Raspberry-Pi-like mini-computer with parallel computing abilities. The company has now unveiled the earliest mass-production units.

Day by day, Kickstarter projects are grabbing public's attention. Again this time, an interesting new project is waiting in Kickstarter for public's response. Chipmaker Adapteva wants to make parallel computing available to everyone. The semiconductor company named the project Parallella. If the company achieves success, the cost of their developed…