A BSP computer consists of processors connected by a communication network.
Sixty processors connected by high-speed phone lines have worked at the transfer 24 hours a day since February.
A new trend in supercomputer design for high-performance computing is using clusters of independent processors connected in parallel.
It is composed of a control unit and a set of simple processors connected in a grid topology.
This is in contrast to the traditional notion of a supercomputer, which has many processors connected by a local high-speed computer bus.
The Hitachi SR2201 obtained a peak performance of 600 gigaflops in 1996 by using 2048 processors connected via a fast three dimensional crossbar network.
Supercomputers of the 21st century can use over 100,000 processors (some being graphic units) connected by fast connections.
Each cluster consisted of 16 processors connected by a fast bus, along with I/O devices for communication to the global bus grid, to the disk and the host computers.
No. 1, it takes more than just several fast processors connected together to make a fast server.
The BBC Micro had support for a second processor connected via the "Tube", which allowed direct access to the system bus.