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Grid Processing
c1ay writes "We've all heard the new buzzword, "grid computing" quite a bit in the news recently. Now the EE Times reports that a team of computer architects at the University of Texas here plans to develop prototypes of an adaptive, gridlike processor that exploits instruction-level parallelism. The prototypes will include four Trips(Tera-op Reliable Intelligently Adaptive Processing System) processors, each containing 16 execution units laid out in a 4 x 4 grid. By the end of the decade, when 32-nanometer process technology is available, the goal is to have tens of processing units on a single die, delivering more than 1 trillion operations per second. In an age where clusters are becoming more prevalent for parallel computing I've often wondered where the parallel processor was. How about you?"
Grid Engine is free, available on most of the Unix platforms, easy to set up and allows you to scale your processing pretty much linearly.
If you want to know more, I'd be happy to consult at $300/hour.
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What is the theoretical size limit of a beowulf cluster? 255? 35xxx? 10^20 ?
Has anyone thought of making a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters yet?