Parallella Community

Hello,
I am starting to learn parallella
The first step is to buy one! however, there are some question which I didn't find a clear answer for them on the web. I will appreciate if the guys here answer.

** The official buying page redirects to amazon page [1]. There I only see the board. Should I buy the acrylic case separately? Then I have to buy from another seller, groundelectronics.com [2].

** The difference between embedded and desktop is only the FPGA's power. Embedded version contains more blocks which is good for larger computations. What is not clear for me, is that what is the border line between them? For example, I want to map a matrix multiplication to the zynq. Is the desktop version enough for 1000*1000 matrices? What about 20000*20000 matrices?
This what I want to know.... What type of problems are only runable on the embedded version and not the desktop version.


Many thanks.



[1] http://www.amazon.com/Adapteva-Parallel ... a+embedded
[2] http://groundelectronics.com/collection ... ooling-kit

What is unclear about the product description found here?
https://www.parallella.org/board/

Yup. Thank you very much. I think parallella is good place for starting professional parallel coding...