URLs http://www.computercore2.com/ In this article we take a closer look at four multicore designs from some of the computer industry ' s leading chip manufacturers: The AMD Multicore Opteron The Sun UltraSparc T1 The IBM Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) The Intel Core 2 Duo Each of these vendors approaches the Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) differently. Their approaches to multicore design are implemented effectively with each design having its

URLs http://www.computercore2.com/ Our aim with the Compute Service is to develop a dynamic Grid execution runtime system that enables one to create and execute dynamic grid applica- tions. This requires the ability to execute sequential and parallel interactive and batch applications, support reliable execution using checkpointing and migra- tion, as well as enable the execution of evolving and malleable [5] programs in a wide area grid environment.