System And Method For Recruitment And Management Of Processors For High Performance Parallel Processing Using Multiple Distributed Networked Heterogeneous Computing Elements

A parallel processing computer comprising:

• a plurality of processing devices each comprising:
• a computer network interface coupled to a processor,
• a memory system, and
• a power supply for providing power to the network interface, memory system, and processor;
• wherein the processing devices are of at least two processing device types;
• at least one conversion device in communication with the processing devices, the conversion device comprising a processing device wherein the memory system of the conversion device comprises conversion code for translating at least some task allocation messages from a format understood by the conversion device into a format understood for execution by a particular type of the at least two types of the processing devices and for relaying translated messages to processing devices;
• and
• at least one access device in communication with the at least one conversion device, the access device comprising:
• a computer network interface coupled to a processor,
• a memory system, and
• a power supply for providing power to the network interface, memory system, and processor;
• wherein the memory system of the access device comprises program code for allocating tasks to processing devices and generating task allocation messages to processing devices.