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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. Re:Sad by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    [shrug] Different standards for ignorance; most people would recognize the origin of the name*, but wouldn't have any idea what a B. cluster is. And by /. standards, that's igorance. I'm a believer in the "one culture," myself -- if you don't recognize either, there's a serious gap in your knowledge.

    *I may be giving "most people" too much credit, of course.

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  2. epic versus clustering by danny · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The top result on a Google search for "beowulf" is about clustering, but 8 of the top 10 are about the epic. And I doubt there'll ever be nearly as many books and articles written about the clustering system as about the poem.

    Danny.

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