Comment by rwmj

Just cleaning up the links for future searchers and adding the first part:

Steve Ciarcia, CIARCIA’S CIRCUIT CELLAR

BYTE Octover 1988, A Supercomputer Part 1. Steve begins a supercomputer project by looking at multiprocessing basics.

https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-... (page 283 in the magazine, page 315 in the PDF)

BYTE November 1988, A Supercomputer Part 2. Steve continues the supercomputer project with a look at the Mandelbrot set.

https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n465/mo... (page 399 in the magazine, page 466 in the PDF)

BYTE December 1988, A Supercomputer Part 3. This final part looks at hardware nuts and bolts and also at the driver program.

https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-... (page 327 in the magazine and PDF)