The Parallella project aims to democratize access to supercomputing by creating an affordable parallel computing platform. The Parallella computer is a credit card-sized, open source platform based on Adapteva's Epiphany multicore chips. These chips contain an array of simple processors connected by an on-chip network, allowing applications to achieve high performance at low power. The goal of the Parallella project is to make parallel computing easier to use and bring supercomputing capabilities to everyone for just $99.