From: Ralph De Carli <ralph.decarli@blerf.eds.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Daughter wants parallel processing
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:37:21 -0500
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H. Michael Sweeney wrote:
> 
> My 14 year-old says shes ready for the big league.  She found my
> OCCAM/nMOS Transputer manuals from 12 years ago and says she has to have
> it.  She's smart enough -- straight A's and asking teachers to teach her
> topics they don't know themselves -- taken up reading college-level
> books on her own.
> 
Since Transputers are no longer being developed, you might want to look
into Beowulf type parallel computers instead. An interesting site to
start with is:

	http://www.esd.ornl.gov/facilities/beowulf/
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