Mark Allman. Determining the N-th Prime Number Using a Network of Workstations. Report for EE 663, Architecture of Parallel Computers, Ohio University. June 1996.
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Abstract:

Workstations connected by local area networks are now common. Using these resources to speed up processor intensive tasks is an important area of study. This paper demonstrates an almost linear speedup as workstations are added to the task of determining the N-th prime integer.

BibTeX:

@Misc{All96,
    author =       "Mark Allman",
    title =        "{Determining the N-th Prime Number Using a Network of Workstations}",
    month =        jun,
    year =         1996,
    note =         "Report for EE 663, Architecture of Parallel
    Computers, Ohio University",
}