According to
DailyTech, the researchers have put together
a
prototype system made up of 64 parallel processors they claim is 100 times
faster than current desktop PCs. Citing the example of hiring 300 cleaners to
clean a house in one minute instead of hiring one to clean the same house in 300
minutes, project lead
Uzi Vishkin
explains, "The 'software' challenge is: Can you manage all the different tasks
and workers so that the job is completed in 3 minutes instead of 300?" He goes
on to say, "Our algorithms make that feasible for general-purpose computing
tasks for the first time." Vishkin has been working on those algorithms since
1979 and began building prototype hardware to test them in 1997. DailyTech says
he finally
completed the prototype in December 2006.