It has since been upgraded with additional processors to reach the current total.

Using the Markov state model approach, Folding@home achieves strong scaling across its user base and gains a linear speedup for every additional processor.

In some applications, particularly compilers and some distributed computing projects, one will see an improvement by a factor of (nearly) the number of additional processors.

Access to RAM is serialized; this and cache coherency issues causes performance to lag slightly behind the number of additional processors in the system.

The company is now selling versions of its most powerful 3090 mainframe computer with special additional processors for scientific computing applications.

Faster hardware and additional processors can improve Othello-playing program abilities, such as deeper ply searching.

Until now, efforts to speed up computing have involved adding additional processors and using a technique known as pipelining to overlap operations.

Ethernet, Wifi, storage etc also provide various forms of additional (task specific) processors.

Microsoft has announced that Mango will include support for some additional processors and gyroscopes, but so far, that's the extent of what the company has said.

Initially it required an additional processor on an PC expansion card, later it was run using emulation.