Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Parallel processing (was Re: Rom 04 comment) Message-ID: <1151@madnix.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 90 07:26:16 GMT References: <48000015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Feb28.061841.29116@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <13715@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI Lines: 34 In article <13715@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes: > [Entire discussion of ROM 04 upgrade, etc., nuked] >So you'll end up with two computers. Well heck, there's your multitasking. >I do it all the time -- run a telcomm program on my //e, downloading files, >while doing other things on my GS. >'course, I haven't quite figured out what to do with the //c+, the other >//e, and the 2 ][+s in the closet.... howbout parallel processing? ;-) That may not be as much of a joke as you think... I'm working on the lower layers of a serial-based network to facilitate distributed parallel processing with a mixture of PC's (some Compaq's, some Atari ST's, and a Pixel [old 68000 based Unix machine]). Although this thing isn't going to rival a Connection Machine (at least not seriously ;), it will allow existing processing power (in small increments) to be fully utilized. I'm not at liberty to discuss the details, but it's going to be one mighty interesting system... Btw, although there weren't any //'s in the lineup (yaknow, working with what hardware is already there, that type of thing), there's no reason that they couldn't do loosely coupled parallel processing. In my case, I couldn't include anything less than a //gs in the lineup (and it'd be questionable) because the base software is in C - forget the rest (stuff written in Prolog, some using DBase) of the layers. But, since your hardware is fairly homogenous, you could do custom assembly stuff... >--Chan > Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com radius!cwilson@apple.com -- Jason Blochowiak - jason@madnix.UUCP or, try: astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason@spool.cs.wisc.edu "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Saperstein