Back in 2004, Apple hobbyist/guru [Michael Mahon] built a cluster of Apple IIe main boards dubbed the "AppleCrate" as an experiment in parallel computing. Now that a few years have passed, he is back with a new iteration of the device, aptly named AppleCrate II. AppleCrate II was built to address some of the design limits of his first cluster project as well as to expand his parallel computing … [Read more...]