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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."
John Kerry funding BSD
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Just last week, I think it was. John Kerry himself showed the world his own private Beowulf cluster in his house. The photographers took plenty of pictures, and the cluster itself is fully merged into the walls of his house. I have no words to describe this magnificent feat of engineering. See it in action here.
"All your beowulf clusters are belong to us!"
- Brought to you by hot grits, Natalie Portman and that coffee machine that might run linux.
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
No apology.
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Imagine a beowolf cluster of webservers with stories of beowolf clusters. It is almost too much!
today is spelling optional day.
-1. FRisT STEP!
0. Natalie Portman pours hot grits down my pants
1. I welcome our new Beowulf overlords
2. All your clusters are belong to us
3. In Soviet Russia, it distributes *YUO*
4. ???
5. Profit!
...does anyone even still USE these any more?
/. mods have to use Beowulf clusters in order to have enough power to mod all the Beowulf Cluster jokes down.
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I've got more mod points and GMail invi
Where the beowulf cluster imagines you...
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
In Soveit Russia, Beowulf clusters YOU!
6. I've got a greased up Yoda doll......
7. Netcraft confirms that the Beowulf Project is dead.
...they had the 10th anniversary of Beowulf clustering *20 years ago*...in Japan.