[Freeswitch-users] Parallela board - interesting for FreeSWITCH?

[Bob Hartwig]

I use little ARM-based boards like the BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi
for FreeSWITCH in our lab, and they work great for small setups.  The
interesting and different thing about the Parallela board is the 16 / 64
core RISC chip, which is programmable in C and C++.  I can envision
offloading transcoding and other CPU-intensive tasks to those cores.  Hard
to say if it will be stable when it's finally released, and I don't know
enough about that chip to know if it's up to the task.

    Bob



On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Francis <sms at icefire.qza.net.au> wrote:

>  I know that on a VIA Eden with 512mb ram, I could have a few calls going
> without transcoding and it used 20 to 50% cpu, at 800mhz. I'm guessing that
> would be somewhere in the ballpark of this board.
>
> There's a few of these ARM boards popping up to compete with Raspberry Pi,
> I was looking at the CubieBoard for around AU$80 on ebay, shipped with a
> plastic case. For a customer with less than ten extensions, an IVR or two
> and voicemail, it's a very tempting experiment to try! The only catch I can
> see is kernel support for your preferred distro. Debian has armhf, don't
> know about the others. Allwinner, the chip that Cubieboard is based on has
> some far flung patches in upstream and there's some custom firmware images
> at linux-sunxi.org. I was _almost_ on the button to buy one, but I scored
> 15  T5745 thin clients with Atom N280/1GB ram for $30 each, so I shelved
> the idea for the time being.
>
> Which brings me to another question: Is it really worth the fiddling
> around, when I can import a complete, new Atom/Intel based thin client for
> around $150, with full kernel and driver support plus expansion
> capabilities? Maybe in a year or two, We might see fully supported ARM
> based units with the same support/options for $50. :)
>
> Francis
>
>
>
>  <http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page>
> On 29/12/2013 9:20 AM, Bob Hartwig wrote:
>
> Does anyone here have an opinion on the Parallela board -
> http://www.adapteva.com/products/parallella/parallella/ - as a platform
> for FreeSWITCH?  Could it be appropriate for applications that need to be
> small and inexpensive, but also capable of doing a fair amount of real-time
> transcoding?
>
>      Bob
>
>
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