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Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers
Pii writes "News.com is running a story about Penguin Computing acquiring Scyld Computing, a company founded by Donald Becker, of linux ethernet driver and Beowulf cluster fame. Becker will stay on as Penguin's Chief Technology Officer, and the companies claim they don't expect any layoffs as a result of the merger."
The topic alone makes the next 100 posts redundant..
...the 2 workers at each company were relieved to here today that their jobs were no in jeopardy.
A Beowulf cluster of resurgent troll jokes.
A Beowulf Cluster of Beowulf Clustering Companies ... shenanigans.
I used one to try to install Gentoo in under week.
Computer Geek Proverb: Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
imagine a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters
Imagine a Penguin cluster of a Beowulf Penguin cluster of clusters of Penguins and Beowulfs surrounded by clusters of Beowins and Pengowulfs which are then clustered together into a nice, neat, little cluster.
Betcha can't imagine that. So there!
How do you rate the article as troll?
Bugs are just features that have been fixed.
Have you ever heard clusters mentioned in literature prior to 1960? No? That's because liberal scientists invented the concept of Beowulf Clusters to push their hippie Communist principles through false benchmark numbers telling us the pervasive lie that sharing resources evenly is the most efficient method. Don't buy it.
Other headlines to show up soon:
All the computers that could be extracted from the Beowulf clusters this new company will have!
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
I do, but my coworkers don't know it yet. They still wonder what that Mosix tarball does in their home directories ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Hey!!!
Thats mine line.
I will now sue you under the DMCA for copyright infringement and circumventing my right to say my line!
Everyone knows that you can't keep a Beowulf cluster of penguins up for too long; the nodes will all go down as soon as a plane flies over them and trash your uptime.
Whoops.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
It's too bad you didn't choose to use that Beowolf power to run your web server.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
As I think more about it, it's very strange to me that this story was posted on Tuesday. As in troll Tuesday.
What if there's a grand conspiracy involving Slashdot, the trolls, and a higher level of consciousness related to both?! What if the war between them is simply a stage on which to act out and therefore express the human tendency to resist authority, and, as such, to sanction it?!
Oh, the horror! The agonizing, cold truth!
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Ok, which door was it again?
I've got 3
All made entirely out of hot grits
All installed by Natalie Portman, who I stripped and petrified afterwards.
Oh ya, they're all in here, too.
From http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=beowulf+clus ter&type=2 :
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beowulf cluster is offline
beowulf cluster is such a high performance computing environment
beowulf cluster is the only machine in the cluster that you can login to
beowulf cluster is extremely powerful
beowulf cluster is a bit extreme
beowulf cluster is an investment
beowulf cluster is available for $1195 per person
beowulf cluster is a computer system conforming to the beowulf architecture
beowulf cluster is to first connect to the university unix service via the common desktop environment
beowulf cluster is now operational
beowulf cluster is shown below
beowulf cluster is via httpd running on your server node
beowulf cluster is a little off the beaten path
beowulf cluster is linux
beowulf cluster is connected with 100
beowulf cluster is reported
beowulf cluster is the number of people waiting in line to run their code on the system
beowulf cluster is 42nd on the list
beowulf cluster is small
You can tell an American thought of this page, can't you