How to Build an AppleSeed        a one-page recipe for constructing a Macintosh cluster

Recommended software (what we use to keep 'em running):

Launch Den Mother and Launch Puppy        applications that assist in starting a MacMPI parallel executable

AutoGuest Control Panel        a control panel from Apple that automatically selects guest access

A fun way to test your system:

Parallel Fractal Demo (65 kB) (To Internet Explorer users: Read This)        a MacMPI parallel graphics application demo which runs on an arbitrary number of processors  We used this program to time our G3 cluster at 1 GFlop/sec!

Growing your own fruit:

Writing your own Parallel Programs        directions for writing your own parallel programs using the communications library MacMPI

Two brains are better than one:

Multiprocessing Development Page        directions to simplify writing code for MP-equipped Macs

High-performance MacMPI software for Macintosh - featuring TCP/IP versions and AltiVec code!

Other MacMPI software for Macintosh - Additional source code, examples, demonstrations, useful software, and an Open Transport AppleTalk version of MacMPI.

last update: January 29, 2001