Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision in Network Time Protocol
An interesting side-effect of this, is that it would enable a standard of synchronization, across geographic regions, such that one could treat a set of virtual machines as one ultra-wide-bus CPU with a 1 GHz clock speed.<p>All of the local overhead of real system resouces and network synchronization could handled by the remainder of the real CPU clock available to the bare metal, but contribute to the computation of a segment of a virtual bit field, at speed.<p>So, now maybe we get a commodity 4096 bit 1 GHz CPU as a service. Which, is maybe comparable to a 64 core processor, but without the overhead of chunking down to the width of 64 bits.