Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO
by Hank Dietz
Publisher: The Aggregate 1998
Number of pages: 63
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This document discusses the four basic approaches to parallel processing that are available to Linux users: SMP Linux systems, clusters of networked Linux systems, parallel execution using multimedia instructions (i.e., MMX), and attached (parallel) processors hosted by a Linux system.
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