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		aristidb on Sept 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel comput... I'm hardly an expert in this, but doesn't that architecture look similar to Intel's MIC architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC) with the upcoming Xeon Phi product? See also http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/28/intel-details-knights-cor...

yvdriess on Sept 28, 2012 [–]

It's more similar to the Tilera64 chips and ye olde Transputer. Key difference is the reliance of the MIC on cache coherency across all cores.

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