Network-attached smart peripheral for loosely coupled grid computer

With the development of the computer system architectures and the computing technologies, the traditional tight-coupling computer systems face challenges. The loose-coupling computer architecture based on the grid computing concept show its superiorities. In this paper, the challenges in building loose-coupling computer architecture are discussed from the view of the computer peripherals, and the architecture of the network-attached smart peripheral (NASP) for the loose-coupling grid computer architecture is presented. The NASP architecture has been implemented in a cluster console system, and the performane of the NASP based cluster console system (NASP-CC) is perfect