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What's next?

• Hardware
  • Quad Pentium Pro SMP modules are an Intel standard
  • MMX will do great things for integer performance
  • "Production" versions of high-performance networks: ATM, SCI, FC, 1 Gb/s Ethernet...
  • Price doesn't go down, configuration goes up
• Software
  • Improved OS parallelism and process scheduling for SMP Linux
  • A "standard" Linux parallel processing support disk set
  • More stuff ported and debugged