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10 Years of Beowulf Clustering

Posted by timothy on from the tender-years-of-rampage dept.

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."

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  1. Strange... by PapayaSF · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it feels like I've been reading Beowulf cluster jokes on Slashdot for longer than that....

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    1. Re:Strange... by Richard+Dick+Head · · Score: 4, Funny

      I know what you mean...it actually seemed like a Beowulf cluster of 10th anniversaries.

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  2. Oh Lord.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Might as well have posted "Hey, practice your cliche overuse in here!"

  3. Here's your BIG chance! by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  4. At Last by Spencerian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a Slashdot topic full of Beowulf clusters...

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    1. Re:At Last by DarkBlackFox · · Score: 4, Funny

      Imagine a Slashdot topic full of Beowulf cluster comments!

    2. Re:At Last by Spellbinder · · Score: 4, Funny

      Imagine a Beowulf cluster of moderators, modding those posts down

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  5. Just think... by Beek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once this article gets duped a few times, we'll have a Beowulf cluster of stories.

  6. "Joke" posts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's it. Every one of you boneheads is now my enemy.

  7. Wow by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just imagined it...

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  8. Imagine by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    Imagine there's a cluster
    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