Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Hank Dietz)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Add-on hardware/software to convert a PC into a parallel machine?
Summary: How about PAPERS?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 18:39:02 GMT
Message-ID: <3hu42p$sd8@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>

In article <3hmd6p$c42@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> gl1@ix.netcom.com (Gene Levinson) writes:
>Can anyone recommend add-on hardware/software to convert a 486/pentium 
>type machine to a more powerful parallel processing device? Thanks in 
>advance,

Sure.  Try running Linux and interconnecting with PAPERS (Purdue's
Adapter for Parallel Execution and Rapid Synchronization).  All the
hardware designs & software are public domain, and a PAPERS unit is
easy and cheap to build.  See:

http://garage.ecn.purdue.edu/~papers/Index.html

It still will not give you lots of MFLOPS, but at least the machines
will be running unix and can talk to each other with low latency....

							-hankd


