Growing entry, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

Large-scale multiprocessor, integrates cache-coherent, distributed shared memory, and user-level message-passing, in one integrated hardware framework; papers, people, pictures, posters.

Parallel Virtually Shared Memory Architecture; merges benefits of shared and distributed memory models, secures confidential communication via authentication. [ACM Crossroads]

Shared memory multiprocessor architecture, and software for easy and efficient use: Tornado operating system, Jasmine compiler. Descriptions, documents, papers, pictures.

Last year Intel talked of 80-core Teraflop CPU. Today we get many more details on architecture and role in future of multicore CPUs. AnandTech.

Network is main motive; based on interview with Thom Sawicki, technology strategist, Intel Communications Technology Lab, on the Terascale computing research initiative. Ars Technica.

Physical law is forcing the semiconductor industry to accept something it knew all along but refused to acknowledge: the most effective way to provide high-performance is to use many processors, not just one. [ElectronicsWeekly]

Brief article on Rapport's Kilocore chip, which may be used for video processing. Technology Review.

Large link page: press releases, academic papers, presentations on dual-core and multicore processors. By James Donald, Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University.