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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. Beowulf - the name by NotAJock · · Score: 5, Informative
    Just because I'm an English (the language) geek, here's the lowdown on the name 'Beowulf':

    The Beowulf poem is the oldest known epic in the Anglo-Saxon language (that's like, early english). It's about the life of a king of the "Geats" called Beowulf. It starts off as him as a young rash figher and follows through to his death after fighting a dragon.

    Damn great story - there's probably loads of online texts (like this one?). The only surviving manuscript (possibly the only one ever written) is in the British Library. You can go there and see it.