OK so while we wait for the physical design guys to get back to me with area and power I'm looking at how to hook up so many cores in parallel. 

I have a question or two:

Is there a preferred method of splitting the workload ?

Can I partition the nonce and have each core work and a subset?

Should all cores work on the same job at once?

How do Avalon, BFL and multiple GPUs etc. do it now?