<cfquery datasource="dsn" name="q_your_query">
    SELECT id,name FROM your_table
</cfquery>

<table>
<cfoutput query="q_your_query">
    <cfif currentrow mod cols EQ 1>
        <!--- NEW ROW AND CELL--->
        <tr><td>
    <cfelse>
        <!--- NEW CELL --->
        <td>
    </cfif>
    DATA FOR THE CELL (#id#,#name#,etc..)
    </td>
    <cfif currentrow mod cols EQ 0>
        <!--- CLOSE ROW IF CURRENT ROW DIVISABLE EVENLY BY COLUMNS NEEDED--->
        </tr>
    <cfelseif currentrow EQ recordcount>
        <!--- FILL IN EXTRA BLANK CELLS FOR PROPER HTML COMPATABILITY ---->
        <!--- FIGURE OUT LOOP COUNT BASED ON RECORDCOUNT AND COLUMNS NEEDED --->
        <cfloop from="1" to="#cols - (recordcount mod cols)#" index="i">
            <td> </td>
        </cfloop>
        <!--- CLOSE ROW --->
        </tr>
    </cfif>
</cfoutput>
<!--- DONE! --->
</table>