Grid Processing 130
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?"
Yep (Score:1, Funny)
And before anyone says it, no I have ever thought about a beowolf cluster of those...
Uh oh, Terminator andriods will rule the earth! (Score:4, Funny)
Don't say I didn't warn you!
Re:For the rest of us (Score:3, Funny)
Which is why most of your tech jobs are being shipped overseas.
Re:What about Transputers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What about Transputers? (Score:3, Funny)
pregnant on a rotation schedule, they will produce
one baby per month, with some variance and the
occasional miscarriage.
As a domain expert with years in parallel computing
under my belt, I claim dibs on that job.