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From: Sandy Harris sharris@fox...
Subject: Load sharing in Plan 9
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 12:39:44 -0400

Given a PC running Plan 9, one user & a desire for more computational
horsepower (mainly for large compiles & CPU-eating background jobs like 
searching for factors of huge numbers), I can afford:

either    another PC, 16 megs, fast 486 or low-end Pentium
or        half a dozen Sun 3/60s each with 16 megs & 20 MHz 68020

Costs on these are roughly equal.

Does Plan 9 have load-sharing support to make the multi-Sun
configuration an interesting parallel compute server? Or has
anyone ported PVM or other similar code?

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 Sandy Harris
 sharris@fox...