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Scyld to Release Beowulf 2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the I-wanna-make-a-beow...-oh dept.

grantedparole noted that Scyld has announced that they'll be releasing Beowulf 2 on tuesday. Scyld's CTO is none other then Don Becker. Presumably they'll be showing this off at ALS this week (ALS is the Atlanta Linux Showcase, and is probably the best of all the Linux shows. Since its in Atlanta, its also the only tradeshow that doesn't require me to take a connecting flight!).

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  1. Re:Question? by Marillion · · Score: 5

    Don Becker, while at NASA's atmopheric labs, had the vision of using many Linux boxes as a cluster before Linux was even at the 1.0 revision level. He is often creditied as being the inventor of Beowulf. He wrote over half the network drivers in Linux and Beowulf as a means to an end.

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  2. Beowulf still lacking some Mosix features (and vv) by sprag · · Score: 5

    [Sorry about my other crap post...return in the subject textbox submits :( ]
    MOSIX has transparent fork-and-forget process migration, but is a bitch to set up. It would be nice if the Beowulf-style setup (and process management tools) were available in a MOSIX like cluster. Beowulf is still for MPI apps and MOSIX is still for "normal" apps, but it will be interesting as these two products develop to see where they overlap...