Killer Micro Question

[Heiko Blume]

In article <16364 at s.ms.uky.edu> randy at ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) writes:

#I have been wondering how hard it would be to set up several 
#of the new fast workstations as one big Mainframe.  For instance,
#imagine some SPARCstations/DECstations set up in a row, and called
#compute servers.  Each one could handle several users editing/compiling/
#debugging on glass TTY's, or maybe one user running X.
#

you might want to have a look at some backissue of BYTE (about distributed
processing). they had an article about a compute server with a damn lot of
processors. it had a Real Fast Bus and processors dedicated for network
handling etc.
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