Their answer to 'Why do you call the Parallella a supercomputer?' is also pretty curious: ;)
> The Parallella project is not a board, it's intended to be a long term computing project and community dedicated to advancing parallel computing.
> The current $99 board aren't considered supercomputers by 2012 standards, but a cluster of 10 Parallella boards would have been considered a supercomputer 10 years ago.
Wait, what? :D (emphasis mine)
> Our goal is to put a bona-fida supercomputer in the hands of everyone as soon as possible but the first Parallella board is just the first step. Once we have a strong community in place, work will being on PCIe boards containing multiple 1024-core chips with 2048 GFLOPS of double precision performance per chip. At that point, there should be no question that the Parallella would qualify as a true supercomputing platform.
> The Parallella project is not a board, it's intended to be a long term computing project and community dedicated to advancing parallel computing.
> The current $99 board aren't considered supercomputers by 2012 standards, but a cluster of 10 Parallella boards would have been considered a supercomputer 10 years ago.
Wait, what? :D (emphasis mine)
> Our goal is to put a bona-fida supercomputer in the hands of everyone as soon as possible but the first Parallella board is just the first step. Once we have a strong community in place, work will being on PCIe boards containing multiple 1024-core chips with 2048 GFLOPS of double precision performance per chip. At that point, there should be no question that the Parallella would qualify as a true supercomputing platform.