Parallella is a single-board computer roughly the size of a credit card or Raspberry Pi. Parallella runs Linux. It has 18 cores (2 ARM, 16 RISC) and you can buy it online for about $150. This presentation tells why we care about parallelism and briefly shows how parallel execution differs from serial.
Presented at Madison+ Ruby on August 22, 2015. Presented by Ray Hightower of 8th Light.
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