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A New Approach To Linux Clusters

Posted by timothy on from the but-you-can-still-use-your-imagination dept.

rkischuk writes: "InformationWeek has an article about a group of ex-Cray engineers working on a new architecture for clustering Linux systems. 'It's not easy trying to build scalable systems from commodity hardware designed for assembling desktop computers and small servers.' Per the article, 'As the number of CPUs in a Beowulf-style cluster-a group of PCs linked via Ethernet-increases and memory is distributed instead of shared, the efficiency of each processor drops as more are added,' but 'Unlimited's solution involves tailoring Linux running on each node in a cluster, rather than treating all the nodes as peers.'" Looks like Cray engineers think about clustering even when they're not at Cray.

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  1. Re:here's another approach... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    score as funny. They tend to face reality more than window developers (like windows is a world class OS, since when?).Elliuson is right for a change. windows is a toy OS on a Toy processor.Try SUN you frickin LAN Admin. Stick to LAN's And stop sucking Bill Gates's dick, your mouth is sore

  2. Re:this brings up something.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    God damn I am so sick of your comments. Are you ready? Because here it comes:

    FUCK YOU.

    Hey, anybody can do this, not just you. You're welcome.

  3. Re:this brings up something.. by Raging+Idiot · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Hey, anybody can do this, not just you

    Wow, you must really be brilliant to have figured that out, you sperm-burping bitch.

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