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Hardware configuration

• Neatness counts when wiring the TTL_PAPERS units
  (and a hardwood case doesn't hurt ;-)
• Cheap, long, cables sometimes do bad things
• Time your parallel ports...
  faster machines often have slower bus bridges
• It's a "normal" cluster

The next set of slides is available from http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/ICPP96/