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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."
The truth about John Kerry This is the truth about kerry!
Vote bush! Kerry is a faggot!
Politicians are all the same, they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.
...it feels like I've been reading Beowulf cluster jokes on Slashdot for longer than that....
Q: What does the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for? A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Imagine a beowolf cluster of x
Couldn't resist.
Next up the 10th aniversary of the
1. xxx
2. ?
3. PROFIT!
model of buisness.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Might as well have posted "Hey, practice your cliche overuse in here!"
John Kerry funding BSD
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I, for one, welcome our new beowulf cluster overlords.
I support the Center for Consumer Freedom
I'm somewhat sorry.
Now go and cluster something.
I was just thinking, we never talk about beowolf custers anymore!!
;)
I wonder, can we beowolf custer a beowulf cluster?!
Imagine a Beow-- *ducks*
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...
Everyone's a comic.
If I was going to post a Linux story, it would be about How linux is in violation of hundreds of patents, many of which belong to Microsoft.. I wonder why Slashdot ignores this story? Is this not news for nerds? Are you not nerds?
...the South Park episode?
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Imagine a Slashdot topic full of Beowulf clusters...
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
...let me be the first to suggest that the Slashdot community join me in constructing a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters... to calculate Natalie Portman and Profit!!!
my foot in your ass.
It is cool that a technoalagy 10 years ago, is still being used in things today. Lke the one NASA is getting
-Joey
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.
Okay, now imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf cluster anniversaries. Oh, man, I just blew my mind!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
My, how alliances change quickly around here... Tell me, as a real sheep, who should I believe? thanks
The blurb doesn't explain what a beowulf cluster is, but explains what the origin of the name is. Are slashdot readers that ignorant?
The more you know, the less you understand.
unless Microsoft plans to lay out a smackdown, which of course would invite an in kind reply from IBM.
Naturally, Microsoft would be evil in doing so. And since this is slashdot, that they aren't doing so is pretty nefarious too.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster...of Beowulf clusters.
In 1995, I put together an animation of a satellite my company was working on. I used POVray running on DOS, and wrote a little pair of programs that would hand off render-jobs to different computers. I used 16 computers (mostly P60's) lying around the office to render about 400 frames total. The whole job took about 35 hours of wall time, which was important because I had only three 1/2 days to tweak my small demo & make a final rendering.
.TGA files.
I didn't know network programming, so all communication was through read/writing a few networked control files. One acted as a semaphore - if you had sucessfully written your computer ID to it, you could modify the main to-do-list file. One specialized computer was assigned the task of copying the finshed files onto my new 810MB laptop's hard drive; otherwise the file server didn't have enough space for all the
It was a fun project & I've got it included on my resume. Today it sounds kindof trivial, so I've had to explain that general-purpose clustering tools weren't available then. I guess Beouwulf beat me to it by a year (and a zillion-fold on capability), so I was wrong. Information travelled so much slower those days...
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of "Imagine a Beowulf cluster..." jokes!
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
the cliche is the story!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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.
LO, praise of the prowess of moderators of troll-armed Slashdotters, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the NASA reasearchers won!
Once this article gets duped a few times, we'll have a Beowulf cluster of stories.
Who has the biggest cluster?
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
see subject
In Soviet Russia...
Beowulf clusters you!!
That's it. Every one of you boneheads is now my enemy.
Attendees of what, exactly? The blurb? I've never attended a blurb. Can you build a beowulf of them?? Sigh. -buf
A quick and sloppy google suggests that this is the first "imagine a..." comment (bottom of the page), though it's possible that the joke predates google search capability since Beowolf clusters and slashdot are both older than google. Still, the fact that it's not used as a joke, and the fact that it got a 1 rating (while, inexplicably, all those repeat jokes get modded to the stratosphere these days) lends an air of authenticity to the claim, lacadasical though the research may be.
grammar-lesson free since 1999. (rescinded - 2005)
Beowulf was a poem Tolkien really liked. A lotta the Rohirrim are based off of it.
Imagine that.
"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
...does anyone even still USE these any more; what with the low cost of high-end software and developments in SMP technology; aren't clusters very much out of date?
I tried to search out the first time someone said "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of ..." (actually I left out the of ... when I did the search). but I can only do 30 answers at a time, and since the information I want is going to be at the last page. I am not going to sit here and keep hitting next 30 until I get there. Sorry, I'm playing ZangbandTK, or Planescape: Torment. None, of the repetitious clicking for me.
hmm, haven't played Diablo 2 in awhile...
Be seeing you...
What do you call a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters?
/not/ a troll...)
A metawulf? A beocluster? A metacluster? A metabeowulfcluster? Or something different?
(p.s. this is
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday Beowolf Cluster!
SimonTek
Danny.
I have written over 900 book reviews
Heres to 10 years of stupid Beowulf Slashdot cliches!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of people telling you to RTFA!
Seriously though, the linked article goes into a lot of detail about what a beowulf cluster is.
bash: rtfm: command not found
imagine sucking my fucking balls
Where's Natalie Portman when you need her?
I just imagined it...
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
1. In Soviet Russia, a beowulf cluster of insensative clods welcomes YOU as their overlord! IN JAPAN!
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!!!
But, does it run on linux?
In completely unrelated news, I was told by a friend of mine to say: LINUX RULES! MICROSOFT SUCKS! So that I'd get good moderation *hint*
Sleep, she is for the weak..
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
That's what the Beowulf project has created (besides way too many /. jokes =) ).
Imagine clustering hundreds to thousands of identical computers together to do heavy-duty computational work at a cost far below that of a dedicated supercomputer--that's what Beowulf clustering has made possible. Why do you think a lot of biotech companies are using large-scale Beowulf cluster setups to do DNA simulation?
Also, it has created a market for rack-mounted small server machines called blade servers where you can put hundreds to thousands of them in a relatively small space, all synched together using Beowulf clustering code.
El Cid
t p://www.google.com/search?q=el+cid+campeador
Check it out, yo.
http://www.legends.dm.net/paladins/cid.html
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Listen cowboyneal, i have won you have lost so you might as well give up now. I move from MA to NY, to CA and you will never stop me from pwning yuo sucker!
Repent! For I have been once again smited by ye powerfull Karma god! Why people so unkind?
Sleep, she is for the weak..
I swear to christ I'll hunt down whoever cracks the next beowulf cluster joke and stab them in the throat.
Where the beowulf cluster imagines you...
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
One thing that the article mentions, but doesn't get into. That scientists were hostile to the concept at first.
Can anyone who was around at the time shed some light on this?
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
In Soveit Russia, Beowulf clusters YOU!
Dang, where are the mod points when I need them...
All your beowulf cluster are belong to us.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
From the poem it says Beowulf's father was Scyld. From now on the Slashdot joke that isn't a joke but somehow gets modded +5 Funny every time anyway is....
"Imagine a Scyld cluster of those!"
Give it some time. It'll catch on.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Slashdot mirrors that could prevent 503s...
6. I've got a greased up Yoda doll......
7. Netcraft confirms that the Beowulf Project is dead.
I'm kinda off-base here, aren't?
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
May the person who posted the first Beowulf cluster joke burn in hell for all eternity. And may his fingers be cut into very tiny pieces. And may his eyes be plucked from their sockets with a butter knife and fed to him like a goose. And may his web server be subjected to an unusually long Slashdotting. And may his......
It had to be said eventually
I would like to apologise first off for creating this monster.
I did it out of boredom more than anything else a long time back..
Its only the first three verses' however, I wasn't insane enough to do the whole thing.
D00d u no Cl4n Danish?
Cpl 98, 99
Th3y b l33t
[danish]Shield < [danish]sheaf
pwnd in Q3 & C$
Romero was like "D00d??! WTF?"
Bcase he w4z working solo.
He wez top of teh ladder
and teh Chatroom was like
"D00d??! WTF?"
He pwnz
[danish]shield N3\/\/ a n00b
T0ok nOOb to clan danish
n00b was fr0n CowboyNeil
k3pt the Cl4n as 1
M4de them > l33t
[danish]grain w4a his 'nic
He was l33t.
in the CPL
4ll n00bs shuld l34rn
Spread the lewt
when u are a noob
so wh3n ur 19
teh clan wi1l still restecpt U
wh3n j00 at w4r
a man is l33t
if he is k00l
on any of teh servers(xsept teh telstra 1s)
[danish]shield was pwnd after his 19th
w3nt to uni stoned but still with l33t
teh clan danish gave him pr0n
which was sw33t
1n his gargae sat
a l33t machin3
old-school but built 4 teh road
There [danish]shield slept
next 2 teh handbrake
surrounded by teh pr0n
russ4n, german and teh japanes
teh Cl4n watched teh car leave
a shitbox it was
filled with the lewt
and teh goatse mails and gifs
4 teh long wait till uni
he was without a gfx card
he w4s liek a n00b
wh3n he left teh clan
A l4mer n00b
teh clan put a bumper sticker on his c4r
Goatse it procle.. proclaine... said.
teh clan l3t him le4ve
a|\|D 3 teh uni he went
teh most l33t in teh clan
don't no what uni is liek
I feel unclean now.
Read Errant Story.
great! Now i wait for the Soviet Russian anniversary.
http://slashdot.org/~Morosoph/journal/79657/
Why am I not surprised that you somehow managed to include "Geatse" reference in your Beowulf cluster of those explanation? Don't even get me started on the obvious connection of "oldest times" to cosmology and all that "big bang black hole" stuff.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
In fact, I like it so much I am going to plead fair use and extract it.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Writing begets writing. Every literary flea has literary fleas on its back (did Pope say that?). But computer science begets computers. Stuff that really works doesn't need a mountain of commentary, though it could probably benefit from a decent manual.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
I've posted, so I can't mod you up. Good effort, though.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Now that would be fitting for this forum
Attendees recalled the initial fear and loathing the Beowulf project had to overcome.
/. joke of all time.
And now, "Beowulf" is a term synonymous with the most downmodded
You've come a long way, baby.
Best.. Beowulf Joke... Ever!
You, sir, have revitalized a dying art!
Opinions stated are mine and do not reflect those of the Illuminati
...they had the 10th anniversary of Beowulf clustering *20 years ago*...in Japan.
Bye!
SeqBox
Given the development of kernel-level clustering such as OpenMosix, is there any point in implementing a 'traditional' Beowulf any more?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
(Posting as AC to not blow moderations done in this forum)
This is EXACTLY what GoogleFight was made for!
I entered the two topics:
Beowulf Cluster vs. Beowulf Poem
And The Results (A Drum Roll, Please)...
Cluster Wins! They show 135,000 articles vs. 92,600 for the poem.
So SCO is responsible for the first "imagine a Beowulf cluster..." joke, too.
/. posters?
I wonder if they are going to claim it as their IP, and sue thousands of
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
A Beowulf cluster of supercomputers... aha .. imagine that!!
well, think of it this way...how old is your average slashdot reader (try 14), and do you think they can handle epic poetry?
I guess we should make a joke or go off on a tangent about any topic OTHER than beowulf clusters on this thread?
Seeing all rhese Beowulf cluster jokes reminds me: what ever happened to the "hot grits" cliche?
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Properly, we should use C.E. and B.C.E. because 1. The majority of people on this planet do not consider Jesus Christ to be their lord and 2. It's rather doubtful as to whether he was actually born in the year 1 A.D. in the first place.
But let's be realistic, people never pay attention to pedantic nitpicks like these.
No one has mentioned that SCO has announced a new line of Grendel's mothers legal clusters which can file complaints about linux clusters in massively parallel fashion?
Slashdot without Beowulf cluster references.
I encountered "Beowulf" the poem first, but this is what comes to mind when the Beowulf cluster comments start flying:
. . . . . . . .
This is Free Trader Beowulf,
calling anyone . .
Mayday, Mayday . . . we are under attack . .
main drive is gone . .
turret number one not responding . .
Mayday . . . losing cabin pressure fast . .
calling anyone . . . please help . .
This is Free Trader Beowulf . .
Mayday . .
Conspir8or
Imagine a Grendel Cluster of these.
Or Imagine a Mother of Grendel cluster of these....
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
For some strange reason I imagined a cluster of Beowulf jokes on this topic...
For some strange reason I was right...
The Beowulf clusters of NeoGeo 4 Ds are cooler than ever. --- Osi -- Nonsense, makes no sense.
Osi Osi Osi Osi Osi