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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!news From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: PROJECT IDEA: Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) for 386BSD? Message-ID: <l4jcegINNs1k@neuro.usc.edu> Date: 25 Jun 92 11:45:20 GMT References: <1992Jun25.070736.6370@iitmax.iit.edu> Sender: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu Is anyone working on a freely redistributable Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) option for use with the free BSD '386/'486 UNIX system? The concept here would be to do some work on developing software to go with an extremely low cost shared memory system interfaced to existing low cost processor boards via ribbon cables to the existing SIMM sockets. The goal would be to produce a very cheap desktop supercomputing system (perhaps 10 '486 boards) for use in large scale simulation and analysis projects. What is involved in completing this kind of SMP option? Thanks, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alexander-James Annala Principal Investigator Neuroscience Image Analysis Network HEDCO Neuroscience Building, Fifth Floor University of Southern California University Park Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------