by piotr5 » Mon Aug 10, 2015 10:06 am
please tell us: why would you buy a 1024core version? what exactly would you use it for? for how long would such a computer be in use? apart from bitcoins, seti@home and similar, I see no reason why such a computer would be in use nonstop. you definitely don't need it to write software for it, and there exists no optimized software yet, not even for seti@home and bitcoins. so if people are unable to write software running optimally on the 16core system, what makes you think they'd be capable to do so with a 1k-core system? wouldn't 1k cores just increase the complexity of such a task? maybe some people freshly released from nuthouse would desire a 1024core system, but how many such idiots can you find? also it should be mentioned, kickstarter is the wrong platform for 1024core epiphany costing 2k$ a piece. suppose they need 1million$ to get started, and they really need much more, that'd be more than 500 contributors buying such a thing. and those customers would need to wait about 2 years before getting the board. there'd be no video of that board since the chip isn't created yet and needs the kickstarter money for prototype alone. so, how do you propose to do that campaign? programmers usually don't read kickstarter, so they wont get any board at all. last campaign flushed up some hardware developers who got their board and now contribute a lot. those do read kickstarter projects. but hardware without software is useless. so how do you suggest to attract more programmers to pay those 2k$? preferrably attracting programmers should be done with 16core boards. that's what adapteva is doing right now. didn't succeed much. you have any suggestions how to reach more programmers? my own contribution is just to spam down the board to make the impression there's a lot of discussion, isn't much. the more I talk of programming the more likely google will lead some programmers here. what contribution do you plan to do?