This may not be DIRECTLY relevant to r-sig-finance, but I'm sure that it's of interest to some of us.  Early support is needed in the next week or so to get this moving.

The more complete story on the project is on Kickstarter (search for Parallella - or use link below).  The short version is that "Parallella: A Supercomputer for Everyone" is seeking backers in order to produce an extremely cheap, powerful, and low power consumption line of open source parallel processing hardware.  They are half way to their funding goal to have the product out in the next six months or so.  (Prototypes exist already, but the goal is to fund chip machine setup for high volume low cost production).

This looks like a potentially great platform for R parallel tasks.  I have no relationship with Parallella, but it looked so cool that I signed up, so now I'm hoping that about 3500 of you will back this effort too.  Check it out.  I was surprised to find no references to the project in the r-news archives.

Link to project page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone

Dan Rie
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