Network is main motive; based on interview with Thom Sawicki, technology strategist, Intel Communications Technology Lab, on the Terascale computing research initiative. Ars Technica.
Large link page: press releases, academic papers, presentations on dual-core and multicore processors. By James Donald, Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University.
Parallel Virtually Shared Memory Architecture; merges benefits of shared and distributed memory models, secures confidential communication via authentication. [ACM Crossroads]
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]