Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Multiprocessing in your own PC lab
Message-ID: <1990May2.184707.9863@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <0093608E.3DCAF480@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 May 90 18:47:07 GMT

In article <0093608E.3DCAF480@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>Couldn't you take a room full of workstations or PCs and (through the
>appropriate software) treat them as a one big parallel processing
>machine? ...

Yes, sort of.  Many people have done this sort of thing.  The hard
part is the usual problem of replacing a pair of oxen with a hundred
chickens:  figuring out how to parallelize the problem in a way suited
to the hardware.  
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