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To: milo_morai who wrote (128145)	11/11/2000 2:41:29 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1570742

Traditionally, most supercomputers have involved highly advanced technologies and staggering costs. But the University of Kentucky's KLAT2 (Kentucky Linux [AMD] Athlon Testbed 2) is a "Beowulf" computer, which strings together many PC's and unites them in common computational tasks. The key, according to Professor Dietz, is parallel processing---executing multiple portions of a program simultaneously. Milo, Thanks.....I thought it might be a supercomputer set up but I was afraid to bring it up for fear of being laughed off the thread. ;~) ted