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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. Imagine a Beowulf cluster ... in Japan by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 0, Troll

    No apology.
    -russ

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  2. Re:Ok, well, that's nice BUT by System.out.println() · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...does anyone even still USE these any more?

    Sure. The /. mods have to use Beowulf clusters in order to have enough power to mod all the Beowulf Cluster jokes down.

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