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10 Years of Beowulf Clustering
Quirk writes "Wired News has a blurb celebrating the 10th birthday of the Beowulf cluster. Attendees recalled the initial fear and loathing the Beowulf project had to overcome. The Beowulf project takes its name from an epic poem penned circa 1000 A.D."
...it feels like I've been reading Beowulf cluster jokes on Slashdot for longer than that....
Q: What does the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for? A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Might as well have posted "Hey, practice your cliche overuse in here!"
I, for one, welcome our new beowulf cluster overlords.
I support the Center for Consumer Freedom
Ah, finally, a story where all those 'imagine a Beowulf cluster of...' comments actually would be ON TOPIC! Naturally that means there won't be that many, other than comments such as this one that is commenting on such comments...a meta-comment about Beowulf clusters. Speaking of which, can you imagine a meta-cluster...oh never mind...
Imagine a Slashdot topic full of Beowulf clusters...
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
Okay, now imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf cluster anniversaries. Oh, man, I just blew my mind!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Once this article gets duped a few times, we'll have a Beowulf cluster of stories.
That's it. Every one of you boneheads is now my enemy.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of people telling you to RTFA!
Seriously though, the linked article goes into a lot of detail about what a beowulf cluster is.
bash: rtfm: command not found
I just imagined it...
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Of 64 G5s
Or 128 Opterons
Between them only CAT5
Imagine all the boxen
Benching Quake FPS...
Imagine no shared memory
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to spinlock or thrash for
No cache coherence too
Imagine all the boxen
Crunching local tasks...
Imagine there's no mainframes
I wonder if you can
No need for Crays or S/390s
A cluster loosely bound
Imagine all the boxen
Sharing all the LAN...
You may say that I'm a uniprocessor
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And we'll simulate nukes as one
I would like to apologise first off for creating this monster.
I did it out of boredom more than anything else a long time back..
Its only the first three verses' however, I wasn't insane enough to do the whole thing.
D00d u no Cl4n Danish?
Cpl 98, 99
Th3y b l33t
[danish]Shield < [danish]sheaf
pwnd in Q3 & C$
Romero was like "D00d??! WTF?"
Bcase he w4z working solo.
He wez top of teh ladder
and teh Chatroom was like
"D00d??! WTF?"
He pwnz
[danish]shield N3\/\/ a n00b
T0ok nOOb to clan danish
n00b was fr0n CowboyNeil
k3pt the Cl4n as 1
M4de them > l33t
[danish]grain w4a his 'nic
He was l33t.
in the CPL
4ll n00bs shuld l34rn
Spread the lewt
when u are a noob
so wh3n ur 19
teh clan wi1l still restecpt U
wh3n j00 at w4r
a man is l33t
if he is k00l
on any of teh servers(xsept teh telstra 1s)
[danish]shield was pwnd after his 19th
w3nt to uni stoned but still with l33t
teh clan danish gave him pr0n
which was sw33t
1n his gargae sat
a l33t machin3
old-school but built 4 teh road
There [danish]shield slept
next 2 teh handbrake
surrounded by teh pr0n
russ4n, german and teh japanes
teh Cl4n watched teh car leave
a shitbox it was
filled with the lewt
and teh goatse mails and gifs
4 teh long wait till uni
he was without a gfx card
he w4s liek a n00b
wh3n he left teh clan
A l4mer n00b
teh clan put a bumper sticker on his c4r
Goatse it procle.. proclaine... said.
teh clan l3t him le4ve
a|\|D 3 teh uni he went
teh most l33t in teh clan
don't no what uni is liek
I feel unclean now.
Read Errant Story.
Attendees recalled the initial fear and loathing the Beowulf project had to overcome.
/. joke of all time.
And now, "Beowulf" is a term synonymous with the most downmodded
You've come a long way, baby.