By combining threads and a remote procedure call (RPC) package, you can exploit nonshared-memory multiprocessors, such as a collection of workstations. This combination distributes your application relatively easily and treats the collection of workstations as a multiprocessor.
For example, one thread might create additional threads. Each of these children could then place a remote procedure call, invoking a procedure on another workstation. Although the original thread has merely created threads that are now running in parallel, this parallelism involves other computers.