Parallella, Raspberry Pi, FPGA & All That Stuff

Mike Hewson
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FWIW : rounding off my prior

FWIW : rounding off my prior analysis I have analysed the radix-4 case in detail.

Cheers, Mike

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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Hi! Meanwhile, there is

Hi!

Meanwhile, there is now a GPU accelerated FFT implementation for the Raspberry Pi ARM SoC:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5934

It has some limitations but the speedup of a factor of 10 over the CPU (at stock clock rate) should make the Raspi competitive with newer, multicore Android phones when it comes to BRP, once I have some spare time to make a Raspi optimized app.

Cheers
HB

Mike Hewson
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It's official : I am an idiot

It's official : I am an idiot !! :-)

I've been successfully fiddling on the Parallella natively ie. working thru a TTY session to the ARM/Epiphany from my Ubuntu machine. Now wanting to transition to cross-compilation ie. use Eclipse + ESDK etc on the Ubuntu.

Check that you have a 64-bit OS !!

I didn't. I thought I did, but no. 'i686' is 32-bit, one wants 'x86_64' returned when one checks via 'uname -m' .... blah, there's time I won't get back.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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RE: It's official : I am an

Quote:

It's official : I am an idiot !! :-)

I've been successfully fiddling on the Parallella natively ie. working thru a TTY session to the ARM/Epiphany from my Ubuntu machine. Now wanting to transition to cross-compilation ie. use Eclipse + ESDK etc on the Ubuntu.

Check that you have a 64-bit OS !!

I didn't. I thought I did, but no. 'i686' is 32-bit, one wants 'x86_64' returned when one checks via 'uname -m' .... blah, there's time I won't get back.

Cheers, Mike.


On behalf of all of us who mostly have no clue what all the stuff in this thread means, I'm sorry, but I do understand this post and it makes me feel a little better about myself.


David

Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.

Mike Hewson
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RE: On behalf of all of us

Quote:
On behalf of all of us who mostly have no clue what all the stuff in this thread means, I'm sorry, but I do understand this post and it makes me feel a little better about myself.


You're welcome David. :-)

Always check your assumptions ..... fake it 'til you make it ....

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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If you haven't yet, reset

If you haven't yet, reset your password at Kickstarter, as it got hacked and all passwords and email addresses got stolen. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/passwords-email-addresses-leaked-kickstarter-hack/story?id=22553952

Mike Hewson
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Darn. I actually got an email

Darn. I actually got an email stating all that. But I ignored it as one gets many scams based on much the same premise - you get a link to a non-https site, invitation to re-enter details etc - so I did nuthin.

What I have done is delete my KickStarter account.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Mike Hewson
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Worth noting that the

Worth noting that the BrownDeer people have produced an update for Parallella involving OpenCL ported to that ARM/Epiphany combo, which has caught my interest.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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RE: Hi! Meanwhile, there

Quote:

Hi!

Meanwhile, there is now a GPU accelerated FFT implementation for the Raspberry Pi ARM SoC:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5934

It has some limitations but the speedup of a factor of 10 over the CPU (at stock clock rate) should make the Raspi competitive with newer, multicore Android phones when it comes to BRP, once I have some spare time to make a Raspi optimized app.

Cheers
HB


@HBE any progress on this front (the Raspi optimised app that is)?

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Hi! Sorry, I haven't yet

Hi!

Sorry, I haven't yet found the time to look in depth into the Raspi GPU FFT.

Here's another development: NVIDIA will sell an affordable development board for the new Tegra K1 ARM SoC that features a CUDA capable GPU:

https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1

Cheers
HBE

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