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From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: PROJECT IDEA:  Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) for 386BSD?
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Date: 25 Jun 92 11:45:20 GMT
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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

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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
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