$99 Supercomputer Parallella Now Fully Open Source Hardware

While there is a open source alternative for almost every useful closed program out there, open source hardware are however rare. Parallella which started earlier as a Kickstarter campaign to create a really cheap, reliable supercomputer for masses, had promised earlier that they will make their hardware open source. The campaign is now over and now it seems that they have fulfilled their promise.

Some of the mind blowing specs of this tiny board are:

• SoC – Xilinx Zynq7000 Series (Z-7010 or Z-7020) Dual-Core ARM Cortex A9 with 512KB L2 Shared Cache
• Coprocessor – Epiphany Multicore Coprocessor. The Parallella-16 board includes the 16-core Epiphany-III processor The Parallella-64 board includes the 64-core Epiphany-IV processor
• System Memory – 1024MB DDR3L
• Boot Flash – 128 Mb QSPI Flash
• Indicators – 2 User controlled LEDs
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