MM> G'morning Bo again,

 MM>> And parallel processing is supposed to be the next big Thing !

 BS>> You mean multi process programming?

 MM> Not if that means dealing with several tasks linearly;
 MM> parallel processing takes a task,  breaks it down into
 MM> sub-tasks that can be processed simultaneously and then
 MM> distributes them across separate processors;  the outputs
 MM> are then re-assembled to make a coherent output..

 MM> There's a super-computer here at Massey University that the
 MM> staff built out of 65 PC's - one PC breaks the next task
 MM> down into =< 64 sub-tasks, shoves them through the slave
 MM> PC's and brings the outputs back into a coherent report -
 MM> at astonishing speeds.

 MM> They're going for 129 PC's now...

 Check into Setiathome. There are other distributed computer
 systems on line.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Tomorrow I'll start procrastinating...
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