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Introduction

Introduction

Who?

• Prerequisites:
  • knowledge of Unix as a user - familiar with user commands such as ls, cat, cd,...... and one of the common editors such as vi or xedit

  • elementary familiarity with system administration of Unix - host file; password file; IP addresses etc.

• Target Audience
  • programmers

  • applications developers

  • system administrators

Why?

• Utilize idle time on existing workstations

• Low cost entry level parallel machine for:
  • training

  • application development

  • production runs

• Low cost alternative to high performance parallel machines

What?

• Most Unix workstations

• PCs running Linux