Sir, not sure about what exactly you are looking for, but oddly enough i found this article today on slashdot and found it fascinating, having an abundance of info on generic multithreading. Hope it is of some help, even though it is not perl specific.
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Ah...Now, this makes perfect sense. For some reason, I thought that Perl might be different. Do you know of any Perl-based projects dealing with distributed/parallel processing? Thanks!