100,000 processors is a big-sounding number, but it might be less interesting than the glue holding them together in this case. The dedicated 10Gbps pipe allow

100,000 processors is a big-sounding number, but it might be less interesting than the glue holding them together in this case. The dedicated 10Gbps pipe allows much more interesting problems to be solved than a traditional grid computer (unless the grid computer uses P2P). One of the biggest problems that we always face with big grid computers is that we either need computations that can be broken up into very small parts and have very high compute/io ratios - or else we send bigger chunks of data with VERY long computations to the grid nodes.