[squeak-dev] Ooh, it would be awesome to run Squeak on this

Jecel Assumpcao Jr. jecel at merlintec.com
Tue Apr 16 16:54:47 UTC 2013


Colin Putney wrote:

> http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

I bought one of those and plan to run Squeak on it when it arrives. But
as is, Squeak will only use one of the two ARM cores on the Xilinx Zynq
chip and will totally ignore the  16-core Epiphany Multicore Accelerator
chip (the article says 64 cores, but that would only have been the case
if the extended Kickstarter goal had been reached).

The advantage relative to the Broadcom chip in the Raspberry Pi is that
everything is documented and supported by open source software. So it
would be possible to patch Bitblt or FloatArray primitives, for example,
to use the accelerator.

Unfortunately, this isn't a $99 Tilera. So I don't think any of the
RoarVM work would apply to this board.

-- Jecel



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