Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-04 Thread Shane Morris
Seems there is some interest in this chip, and the board. As you said Henry, state machines would run very quickly in parallel - I had some wad arguing that an FPGA is the only thing you need, but nothing beats a hard core for hard tasks. Grid it up in parallel, times sixteen, and thats a fair bit

Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-04 Thread Henry Millican
Parallella seems very cool. I'll probably pick one up when I have free time. I've worked with the Zynq chip on board, which is also great. For $99 it's one hell of a dev board, considering you get an FPGA with hard ARM cores, as well as the Ephiphany chip. The Ephiphany processor fills in the gap

Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-04 Thread Shane Morris
Oh, its ok. I like the GSoC idea. I just don't think I'm GSoC material, I'm hardware type, even if I will be a uni student this year going forward - "If it draws blood, its hardware" as the old maxim goes. The Parallella board is US$99, a far more modest investment in hardware than a GizmoBoard as

Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-04 Thread lucio
> Thoughts? Comments? Critique? Flames? I guess this is the real value of efforts like GSOC, if only they could be extended to a much greater public either with an infinite budget or by pushing a far more socially-aware ethos. I'll refrain from pontificating further. ++L

Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-04 Thread Shane Morris
I suppose, if you bug me enough, and I have some time up my sleeve (like 3:30am in the morning when I can't sleep) I'll try typing a coherent reply. I don't G+, I hardly ever use their 3D printing group, which I think has some great suff, I think its another duplicity of an already old concept. Th

Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-04 Thread lucio
> Thoughts? Comments? Critique? Flames? Sounds like fun. I would suggest keeping (some of) us posted. Maybe the occasional posting on G+? ++L

[9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-04 Thread Shane Morris
Hello 9fans, I saw references to the GreenArrays chip on list, and did some more investigation: http://www.parallella.org/board/ I thought this may be a worthy target of even a Styx-on-a-chip implementation. I have contacted their forums, and one of their moderators said it would be a good idea.

[9fans] new 9atom headquarters ...

2014-02-04 Thread erik quanstrom
http://www.qv.co.nz/property/property-details/9-atom-lane-woolston-christchurch/2367451 - erik

Re: [9fans] issues with plan9port issues

2014-02-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Feb 4 12:15:21 EST 2014, k...@sciops.net wrote: > Quoting erik quanstrom : > > > it looks like the issues are just a place for spam: > > > > http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues?status=new&status=open > > > > does anyone have any suggestions on reducing or eliminating the spam? > > > >

Re: [9fans] issues with plan9port issues

2014-02-04 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : it looks like the issues are just a place for spam: http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues?status=new&status=open does anyone have any suggestions on reducing or eliminating the spam? In the past, bitbucket has been responsive to someone with admin control of the

[9fans] issues with plan9port issues

2014-02-04 Thread erik quanstrom
it looks like the issues are just a place for spam: http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues?status=new&status=open does anyone have any suggestions on reducing or eliminating the spam? - erik