From: Sid Ahmed Ali Touati <Sid-Ahmed-Ali.Touati@inria.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Home Supercomputing?
Date: 17 Oct 1998 06:18:04 GMT
Organization: INRIA Roquancourt
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Douglas Baker wrote:
> 
> I'm curious as to what it takes to set up a parallel computer.  I've got a
> couple of old i386 and i486 boxes lying around and would like to put them
> to use.
> 

You can build a supercomputer at home easily. But in order to connect
your PC processors, you have to use a certain card. This type of card is
available for pentium, but I havent't heard for i486 or i386. 
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