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Inspired by hardware companies Raspberry Pi and Arduino, the chip startup company Adapteva wants to make the supercomputer available to everyone. The company's Kickstarter project, Parallella, is based on its Epiphany multicore chips that have been developed during the past four years.
The Epiphany Accelerator "consists of a scalable array of simple RISC processors programmable in C/C++ connected together with a fast on chip network within a single shared memory architecture," the Kickstarter page says.
The Parallella computer would come with a dual-core ARM A9 CPU, the Epiphany Multicore Accelerator, 1GB RAM along with your standard USB 2.0 slots and Ethernet connections.
By raising enough money, Adapteva can mass produce the Epiphany chips and offer them to the public for less than $100.
With 25 days left in the campaign, the company has raised $137,659 of the pledged $750,000.