Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi From: Joachim Worringen Subject: Re: massive parallel computer building Organization: Chair for Operating Systems, RWTH Aachen Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:18:16 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <34E2E888.280110B@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de> Rodolfo C. Yannarella wrote: > > I would like to build my own massive parallel processor based on AMD k6 or > Pentium cpu's. I am new to the field and need some guidance re: commercially > available components, operating systems and and applications software. > Can anybody help? There are zillions of possibilities to build a parallel system. Depends on your requirements and resources. Building a "massively parallel processor" (I guess you mean "system") requires a lot of knowledge *and* financial resources, therefor I consider your question to be some kind of joke!? Nevertheless, a hint: the cheapest way would be a cluster of standard-PCs, connected via Ethernet, programming via MPI. But this is not suited for "massiv" parallelism in general due to the communication-bottleneck. Joachim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ : Joachim Worringen, Lehrstuhl fuer Betriebssysteme |_|_`__ : RWTH Aachen, Kopernikusstr. 16, D-52056 Aachen | |__) : Tel. : +49-241/80-7609 | Fax : +49-241/8888-339 |__)S : e-Mail : joachim@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de