The way I look at things, Parallel computing falls into three basic areas:
- Shared Memory Systems (SMP)
- Distributed Systems (Clusters)
- Hybrids (NUMA)
I plan to have one of each running at my house, but I got the first one up this week. I wanted something that was fairly massively multi-processor, and I just so happened to have a bunch of Sun parts in the garage and a spare SparcServer 1000E. I loaded it up with 4x 4.5GB drives, 8x 85MHz SuperSparcs, and 2GB RAM. After a failed attempt at SMP Linux, I've installed Solaris 8. So far so good. Now, to get pkgsrc running...
