Mateusz Kaczanowski Personal Blog
A Supercomputer For Everyone - the title of Kickstarter campaign got my attention. A single-board computer 2-core ARM with a powerful 16-core Epiphany coprocessor just for just a 99$ seemed to be an affordable option, even for a first-year student like me...
In previous articles, such as Kernel or ISA, we saw how complicated interacting with Epiphany chip could be. A whole bunch of registers, memory banks, and funky addressing scheme. It's a lot to know, for someone who just wants to run a "hello world" program... If only we had some C library that would hide all this complex logic from us?!
Kernel, compiler, bsps, libraries, examples, userspace daemons... Because no one wants to deal with this alone, hardware manufactures (or community) often release pre-configured/customized OS distribution...
Making use of hardware is much harder than owning it, especially when we speak about uniquely designed SBCs such as Parallella. Why? Because problems that can be solved best with parallel computing are hard...