Parallella Community

Days ago I wrote this: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=616

That thead gave me a lot of dubts about how much good Parallella is.
In other words, how much power can give the board? I am not interested in theoretical data as "every 29th of febraury and at -273 °C the chip is equivalent to a x86 at 10THZ", I am interested in *real* capabilities. Benchmarks is not a real test, in my opinion: real test can be only the same application software running on different hardware and then compare the 2 different results.

There are some port of application, something that it is runnable on different architecture and use it as "meter" to compare
parallella with x86? Will be very usefull the port on ephipany (at least one) of the follow software:

aircrack-ng / pyrit,
John the ripper,
bzip2,
etc.,

all that kind of software that can take advantage from multiple cores inside E64.

Only when we will have one or more *application* software we can iuse it a s"meter" for the capabilities of E16/E64.

A quick search would yield info on and .

There are some initial results for Litecoin mining and JtR/bcrypt in this blog post comment from Alexander/solardiz:

http://www.parallella.org/2013/06/12/go ... omment-365

However, note that the Litecoin mining performance was not expected to be fantastic with the 16-core chip, and it does sound as though there may be scope for further optimisation.

As you can see, the bcrypt performance on a 16-core prototype was much more promising, with Alexander saying: "...speed is similar to that of Core 2 Duo at ~2.2 GHz (with both cores in use), but is achieved at much lower power usage".

Remember, this is just the start of the journey!

Regards,

Andrew