#7 Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

“The Parallella project will make parallel computing accessible to everyone.”

Backers: 4,965

Pledged: $898,921

Goal: $750,000 goal

Funding period: Sep 27, 2012 - Oct 27, 2012 (30 days)

Project by: Adapteva, Lexington, MA.

Adapteva is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on low power multicore microprocessor design. The company was the first company to announce a design with 1000 general-purpose microprocessors on a single chip. In September 2012, Adapteva started project Parallella on Kickstarter, which is marketed as "Supercomputer for everyone." Architecture reference manuals for the platform were published as part of the campaign to attract attention to the project. The $750,000 funding was reached in a month and the single-board computer with 16-core Epiphany chip was made available in May 2013.

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