Ted, If you are looking for a software solution, check out the documentation on PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine). It too uses Message Passing. I have been working with it for about 6 months now. Here are the benefits:
1. It's free. 2. There are ports to most of the major operating systems. 3. It's readily available. (Redhat 8.0 even includes the package on there installation cds.) 4. It seems fairly easy to program with. However, I have recently come into some obstacles. Once you learn the syntax and various functions, anyone who can program in C/C++ or Fortran can write a distributed application. Very cool stuff. The source code for pvm is available from netlib.org (http://www.netlib.org/pvm). I'm not sure how much help I'll be able to lend this far away, but I would like to offer it anyway. I have some additional documentation and reference materials that are not available on the web. Thanks, Matthew Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] (507) 532-2488
