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<author>Hank Dietz, <tt><htmlurl url="mailto:hankd@engr.uky.edu" name="hankd@engr.uky.edu"></tt>
<date>v2.0, 2004-06-28
<p>
Although this HOWTO has been "republished" (v2.0, 2004-06-28) to update the author
contact info, it has many broken links and some information is
seriously out of date. Rather than just repairing links, this
document is being heavily rewritten as a Guide which we expect
to release in July 2004. At that time, the HOWTO will be obsolete.
The prefered home URL for both the old and new documents is
<url url="http://aggregate.org/LDP/">
<abstract>
<bf>Parallel Processing</bf> refers to the concept of speeding-up the
execution of a program by dividing the program into multiple fragments
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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.
<p>
This revision (v2.0, 2004-06-28) only contains updated contact information.
</abstract>
<toc>
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However, parallel processing using Linux is useful now, and an
increasingly large group is working to make it better.
The author of this HOWTO is Hank Dietz, Ph.D., currently Associate
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University,
in West Lafayette, IN, 47907-1285. Dietz retains rights to this
The author of this HOWTO is Hank Dietz, Ph.D., currently Professor &amp;
James F. Hardymon Chair in Networking at the
University of Kentucky, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept in
Lexington, KY, 40506-0046.
Dietz retains rights to this
document as per the Linux Documentation Project guidelines. Although
an effort has been made to ensure the correctness and fairness of this
presentation, neither Dietz nor Purdue University can be held
responsible for any problems or errors, and Purdue University does not
presentation, neither Dietz nor University of Kentucky can be held
responsible for any problems or errors, and University of Kentucky does not
endorse any of the work/products discussed.
<sect>SMP Linux