Once broken down, the streams of an application can be processed in parallel, rather than sequentially, thereby saving time. Additionally, you could get "little co-processors that do various tasks now handled by software," said Krewell, jobs such...
For heavyweight business computing jobs such as housing a large company's sales transaction database, Microsoft's preferred philosophy has been to share the load among lower-end servers grouped into a "cluster".
It all stacks up to eight billion floating point operations per second, or 8 Gigaflops; if that is not enough, you can put eight processors into a single system with a corresponding increase in memory, bandwidth and processing power (such a system...
From the buyers’ perspective, the worst outcome would be that the ready availability of fast 64-bit processors will combine with continuing falls in the price of memory to support a new generation of ever more bloated software.
Intel's Woodcrest processors are dual-core chips but Intel in 2006 plans to release an upgrade which packages two in a single module, meaning that a single processor socket will have four processing cores.
By connecting tens of thousands of computing nodes, they can work together simultaneously in a parallel fashion, just in the way that the brain does. Neurons are very slow but they work in parallel to create significant computing capability.