Codex News

Ok, it is with great sadness that I have to announce that Codex.gr, my company, has officially ceased operations as of a few days ago. Actually it had stopped operations for more than a month, but these days the paperwork was finished. One more victim of the recent crisis...

These are the bad news, the good news is that I will continue work on the same field, as I am now employed by Genesi USA Inc to work on ARM and NEON stuff on their product line, the Efika MX

Today, I finished the ARM NEON port of the popular open source Eigen math library.

Here is the commit log:

http://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/changeset/e26af7abc0af/

And here are the results of a simple benchmark (doing matrix addition/multiplication of 512x512 matrices):

Scalar:

$ ./bench_gemm.gcc4.4.1cs

eigen cpu 3.84s 0.0699051 GFLOPS (19.27s)

eigen real 3.8469s 0.0697796 GFLOPS (

Ok, seems most of the stuff has already been sold, thanks for the quick response! The list is updated with only the remaining stuff now. As I gather stuff, I find some new items that might be interesting to some people, I'll post an update as soon as I complete the list.

I changed my office the past days and due to the relocation, I realized that I had some old hardware that I have no further use of. If anyone feels they have a need for this hardware, here is a list with price quotes, anything that's left after 10 days will go on ebay, so if you are interested on a particular item, now is the time! Update: a couple more items were included, check the bold titles!

Never give up if you feel your cause is strong!

A while ago, I organized a Market research for new PowerPC system which didn't prove as fruitful as originally hoped, but it generated a lot of interest all around. This inspired Power2People to create a bounty to help the design and production of the board!

This led the creation of the "Open Source Hardware Bounty" which I'm proud to announce now! More details on the bounty can be found on the Power2People site (scroll down to the open bounties and check the design steps). Genesi fully supports this effort as it is close to the spirit of their successful Pegasos systems.

So what is so special about this project?