[Radiance-general] Radiance on Raspberry Pi

Mark Stock mstock at umich.edu
Mon Apr 22 18:29:53 PDT 2013


It's already happening. Tilera has a 72-core chip, and Parallella is
hoping to sell a 16-core chip for $100.

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

How well these chips will perform Radiance simulations is still
unknown, though some knowledge will definitely be gained when NREL
begins exercising their new Xeon Phi-powered supercomputer.

On 4/22/13, Randolph M. Fritz (i) <randolph+LD at panix.com> wrote:
> That's awesome.  Now if only someone would do something like a
> Raspberry Pi with a multicore ARM.
>
> Ummmmm.  You know, Archos 101 G9s are multicore ARM tablets.  They run
> Android, which runs on Linux.  It *could* be done…
>
> Randolph
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