Parallella Community

Hello,

I too am disappointed that I haven't received my board yet. Adapteva really should post an update, if even just to put people's minds at rest. If they don't post something soon people may start leaving the project, interest will wane and people will move onto other things. They have had a lot of success so far - in promoting their Kickstarter campaign, in building the prototypes, in taping out their own silicon and they have built a community and a lot of momentum around their product. They need to keep people updated to capitalise on all of this.

People have been questioning over the last few days if the project is dead as there have been no updates. Adapteva have been historically bad at updates and at keeping to shipping dates, so I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this. However, even the fact that we're on these forums discussing whether or not the project is or isn't dead is terrible publicity for Adapteva, and everybody's fears and all these negative comments could easily be allayed with a simple update. It's not much to ask. We understand if you're having issues and can't ship the boards yet - but at least let us know that. Personally I would prefer to have a late, working board than an on-time, buggy board, but please let us know what's happening.

I have found something that perhaps people might take some solace from:
on the Parallella Google+ page, there is a link to say Adapteva will be speaking at Code Mesh 2013 on the 4th of December. I had a look at the CodeMesh speakers page (http://codemesh.io/#speakers) and Andreas Oloffson is listed as talking about Adapteva / Parallella, so he hasn't disappeared, he's still around and still pushing Parallella / Adapteva. And even more than that, look at the details of his talk - at the end it says:

"The talk will conclude with an update on the Parallella project which was founded with the purpose of speeding up the transition to ubiquitous massively parallel computing."

So there we have it, we'll have some sort of update on the 4th of December. I'm taking this in a positive light - I hardly think he'd go to a public forum like this in front of a live audience to announce failure, especially when most of those people would not have backed Parallella. If I had failed on something this big, I'd feel so bad and would not want to go in front of audiences around the world proclaiming that I had failed. And he would need to email KickStarter people anyway, so why wouldn't he just do that? So I'm taking it that things are still going OK, but they're just very bad at telling us this.

Thanks,
Eoghan.

Sorry to butt in but the "two years OK" comment made earlier is kinda weird to me ... if a manufacturer said pay now for delivery in two years (more like 3 from the original KS project?) how many people would have said OK ... given that:-

In tech, 2 years is a Vulcan lifetime.
There are at this date fully supported HMP 12 & 16 core ARM A57 boards being sold. That's a lot of 64-bit cores
Similarly, 32-bit A15 multi-core boards have been delivered.
If desperate, true-octa HMP ARM A7 32-bit core devices exist

I continue to check in here every so often just in case there's been a breakthrough news update from the project ...

FWIW just before I committed to a pre-order I re-researched the available info and stopped dead (too many -ve's & maybe's).
FWIW2 the recent sale of chips-only was a showstopper for me (pending that breakthrough). Read between the lines, peeps.

I am disheartened to see this thread four pages deep and moving into week two without a reply. Let's see what happens. Hopefully everyone on the team in Lexington is okay. -C

I realize that I'm not in the same position as all of you that are waiting for hardware, but I'm very disappointed that it's been over a year since the campaign ended and the t-shirts have still not gone out. Obviously they are focusing on what is important: getting the boards in the hands of backers, enthusiasts, and developers. That said, how many hours would it take for an intern or temp-worker to order and ship out the shirts? I was looking forward to wearing this at my university and promoting the technology.

Yes, it's a relief to see that the marketing department is still alive.