Parallella: $99 board Cortex A9 with 'Super Computer' co-processor

Nice project and for the price and what it plans on offering, the geek in everybody gets excited. Alas for me I'm after something with as much CPU power as this but with at least 2 idealy 3 •Ethernet 10/100/1000 ports instead of the one.

Eventualy for the type of price I will find something that ticks all my box's but with all those cores the posibility of roling your own firewall/IDS/packet filtering/inspection becomes alot easier and fun.

Though do read up on it as it is certainly worth reading into if you are not aware or having read about it previously.

Of note there deadline is upcomming and they are still a little short of there target, though I suspect it will fly as it offers something that stands out from the crowd of the surge of me2 Raspberry Pi's we have seen of late. This is something altogether special and in its own catergory. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su... covers the details for me and many others with this "Once completed, the 64-core version of the Parallella computer would deliver over 90 GFLOPS of performance and would have the the horse power comparable to a theoretical 45 GHz CPU [64 CPU cores * 700MHz] on a board the size of a credit card while consuming only 5 Watts under typical work loads." alone. Exciting stuff, and if I had the money to spend I would, even if it falls short on the network port aspect for my initial uses. When I have the play cash I will.

[EDIT ADD] Just been looking into the cost per GFLOP and found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs which indicates this is not going to set a record, though will be close. It does look like it will be even better for power usage 90GFLOPS on 5 watts is for what it is offering potentual record setting, though I'm sure somebody out there knows better, I certainly don't see anything beating that for a generaly usage CPU.