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I get more and more concerned every time I see another delay. The good thing is adapteva has been totally transparent every time there has been a delay, the bad

by dkhenry 13y ago

I get more and more concerned every time I see another delay. The good thing is adapteva has been totally transparent every time there has been a delay, the bad news is there have been lots of them. As a kickstarter backer I am not too concerned eventually my new toy will show up and I can try some fun hacks and projects with it. However part of the deal when they proposed the kickstarter was that we were kick starting a company who was going to do awesome things in the parallel processing space and its taken two years now to just get a commercial 64 core solution out the door. While I am confident they will deliver the parallela board as promised, I am now much less confident that Adapteva will be the vanguard of next generation multi core processing.

VLM 13y ago
"there have been lots of them" Welcome to hardware development. Turnaround times for the software guys are stereotypically measured in minutes, for hardware its measured in days. Just kinda how it is. I see no point in calling out, but pretty much any time someone who's never shipped hardware tries to ship their first hardware, it always takes two to ten times longer. If these guys are still together doing version 4 or something, those estimates will probably be close to reality. Its just a hardware design pattern to always be almost an order of magnitude more optimistic. They ALL do it, the RF guys, analog guys, digital guys. RF guys are by far the worst because of EMI/EMC and licensing reqs, if it makes you feel any better (LOL).
- dkhenry 13y ago
  Which is the problem. If your going to have success in shipping hardware you need to be able to deliver which is why I am concerned, not because its taking a long time to get a product out the door, but because every setback they have here means a longer delay until you could get a commercially sustainable product available. If they could have gotten the 16-core parallella out the door in 1Q 2013 then we could have hit the 2014 target of 1K-core parallella at 1.4 TFlops which is much more useful
melling 13y ago
I'm also a backer. I really haven't given it a second thought. I hope they hit it out of the park but you can never tell. Transmeta, for instance, looked like they were going to change the world at one point but we know how that ended. It's just nice to help a group of people with a vision take a shot at moving the needle.
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by dkhenry 13y ago

VLM 13y ago

"there have been lots of them" Welcome to hardware development. Turnaround times for the software guys are stereotypically measured in minutes, for hardware its measured in days. Just kinda how it is. I see no point in calling out, but pretty much any time someone who's never shipped hardware tries to ship their first hardware, it always takes two to ten times longer. If these guys are still together doing version 4 or something, those estimates will probably be close to reality. Its just a hardware design pattern to always be almost an order of magnitude more optimistic. They ALL do it, the RF guys, analog guys, digital guys. RF guys are by far the worst because of EMI/EMC and licensing reqs, if it makes you feel any better (LOL).

dkhenry 13y ago
Which is the problem. If your going to have success in shipping hardware you need to be able to deliver which is why I am concerned, not because its taking a long time to get a product out the door, but because every setback they have here means a longer delay until you could get a commercially sustainable product available. If they could have gotten the 16-core parallella out the door in 1Q 2013 then we could have hit the 2014 target of 1K-core parallella at 1.4 TFlops which is much more useful

melling 13y ago

I'm also a backer. I really haven't given it a second thought. I hope they hit it out of the park but you can never tell. Transmeta, for instance, looked like they were going to change the world at one point but we know how that ended. It's just nice to help a group of people with a vision take a shot at moving the needle.

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