Re: Parallella?

[Viral Shah]

Looks like it uses ARM. Although there are a couple of ongoing efforts, I haven't yet heard of a successful ARM port.

See:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=julia&suite=sid

-viral

On Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:31:43 AM UTC+5:30, maas wrote:

Is anyone working with  Julia on the Parallella platform?

 

'Making parallel computing easy to use has been described as "a problem as hard

as any that computer science has faced". With such a big challenge ahead, we need

to make sure that every programmer has access to cheap and open parallel hardware

and development tools. Inspired by great hardware communities like Raspberry Pi and

Arduino, we see a critical need for a truly open, high-performance computing platform

that will close the knowledge gap in parallel programing. The goal of the Parallella

project is to democratize access to parallel computing.'

 

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

http://www.adapteva.com/

http://forums.parallella.org

http://forums.parallella.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=151

 

Parallella may well be "a great use case for Julia?" and while there are no "specific

plans in the works for Julia on Parallella ... given Parallella boards ship with Ubuntu ...

and given ... Julia runs great on Ubuntu, in theory it should work right out of the box?"

 

 

 

 

[Toivo Henningsson]

Also, I think that the real interest would be to be able to use Julia to program and interact with the Epiphany multicore accelerator, an undertaking which could be at least as complicated as you want it to be :)

[Xiaodong Qi]

I would support this idea of combining the power of parallel computing
language and hardware--Julia and Parallela. Any followup on this thread? I
still found a whole bunch of failed trials on ARM ports... Wish the core team
of Julia can give a push.

[Joseph Curtin]

What is the main difficulty with the Julia port to ARM?

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Software Architect

-Joseph Curtin

The length of time it take to open any vehicle varies directly with the intensity of the rain.

[Jiahao Chen]

> Any followup on this thread? I still found a whole bunch of failed trials on ARM ports... Wish the core team of Julia can give a push.

Have you looked at the Julia issues?

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8402

As with most open source projects, the best way to get something to happen is to try doing it and report any problems you encounter.

Thanks,

Jiahao Chen
Staff Research Scientist
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory