[dba-Tech] The low end hacker computer world

Raspberry PI sales continue to grow.

The assembly process of these card size computers, runs until all the
components are used up and then the company hunts up enough new sources to
keep the product going. World sales, even in relationship to the sales of
other major manufactures may small but the continuous stream of these
computers is starting to make a significant dent.

Here is a page for those of us that have one and want to use their unit as a
server, here is how:

http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-raspberry-pi-file-
server/

The new Parallela, $99.00 supercomputer (http://www.parallella.org/), which
has just started dealing products may be booked solid for the next six
months. The performance of this system is difficult to qualify but the
following, from a white-paper of the product give some of this computer's
power:

"...the Parallela computer is a Zynq-7010 Dual-core ARM A9 CPU, an Epiphany
Multi-core Accelerator, 1GB of RAM, USB 2.0 support, Gigabit Ethernet, and
will be loaded with Ubuntu OS. "Once completed, the 64-core version of the
Parallela computer would deliver over 90 GFLOPS of performance and would
have the horse power comparable to a theoretical 45 GHz CPU..."

45 GHz in comparison to today's 2.5 or over-clocked 3.5 GHz commercial
computers puts the new Parallels in some sort context...around 15x as fast.

Jim