Friday, June 03, 2005

Self-Wiring Supercomputer Is Cool and Compact

by Will Knight NewScientist.com, 31 May 2005 An experimental supercomputer made from hardware that can reconfigure itself to tackle different software problems is being built by researchers in Scotland. The system under construction at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre -- part of Edinburgh University, UK -- will use Field Programmable Gate Array chips instead of conventional microprocessors. Read the article