New class of Beowulf clusters ?

[Kragen Sitaker]

Someone writes:
> What I'm really interested in is coupling of fast ethernet with PAPERS
> "network".

The easiest way to couple FE with PAPERS is probably to put some PCs on
the FE with their parallel ports attached to the PAPERS device.  But
since every PC has a parallel port anyway, and since most PCs in
clusters don't use them, you should just use the ordinary parallel port
instead.

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