Indeed, your vision of the sync-point parallelism is probably what the ideas in the original node need as a viable CPU platform.

Do Anonymonk's check for follow-ups?

With regard to viable CPU platforms--did you see Monday's announcement?

A little more (speculative) information.It comes to pass :)

Note the diagram "Distributed processing with cells" and the mention of "software cells".

Boy, would I like to get my mitts on one of those, along a with a properly threaded OS.