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An anonymous reader writes "Beowulf clustering turns 10 years old, and, in this interview, creator Donald Becker talks about how Beowulf can handle high-end computing on a par with supercomputers."
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... the amount of replies that will start with the same subject header as mine and not be funny at all?
I sure can!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
awww, fuggit
I'm picturing the ten candles on the Wolf-cake in close proximity with frosting interconnects and one big flame in the middle.
What if Digg added local news and a Slashdot inspired comment karma system? ---
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Happy Anniversary to the most over-used joke on Slashdot. I'll be wearing my tin-foil hat all day to commemorate it. (The 10th anniversary is the aluminum/tin anniversary)
Wouldn't a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters in fact just be a beowulf cluster? Hmm....
Oh yeah and *groan* with regard to that joke! =-P
...doesn't it to you? I mean how long have you been sick of the "imagine a beowulf cluster of those" comments? Doesn't seem like only 10 years would make me that sick of it.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
In honor of the Beatles/Apple topic a while ago, I was inspired to alter the heading slightly (sorry).
Imagine all the clusters
It's easy if you try
With Linux on them
Computing Particles in Sky
Imagine all Beowulf
Crunching in harmony (AhIahahah...)
imagine a lone computer sitting by itself not connected to anything...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Great news too: creator says creation is really good!
In other news: "Ford says their cars are just as good as BMW's and Emachine states their computers rival Apple's"
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
In Soviet Rus-- oh damn. I pulled out the wrong dead horse.
Clusters are the slowest computers available...
If your metric is moving around data, as opposed to how many no-ops you can do a second while waiting for your data to get there.
paintball
8. ???
9. Profit!!
Friends help you move...
REAL Friends help you move dead bodies... ^_^
Imagine there's no cluster,
It's easy if you try,
No adapter below us,
Above us only loopback,
Imagine all the computers
computing for themselves...
Imagine there's no internet,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to download or upload for,
No porn too,
Imagine all the computers
computing pi in peace...
Imagine no tokens,
I wonder if you can,
No need for ethernet or tcpip,
A brotherhood of computer,
Imagine all the computers
Sharing nothing at all...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm the only one,
I hope some day you'll leave us,
And the computers will computer alone.
Mid-Eastern Pennsylvania Gaming Convention
Ok
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
- Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
- How long until the RIAA sues them into oblivion once they find out how may MP3's you can put on one?
- "Can you put Linux on it?" or "Yes, but will it run Linux?"
- "Yeah, but does it run Doom3?" or "And it still won't run Doom3."
- Any comment regarding "Duke Nukem Forever" taking literally 'forever' and being termed 'vaporware'.
- I am not buying one until they support ".ogg".
- I for one welcome our new (insert name of company mentioned in post or story) overlords.
- "George Lucas raped my childhood" or "Greedo shoots first" comments on any story incorporating the Star Wars franchise.
- A comment including these 3 components in any order: Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, hot grits, one's pants.
- Microsoft = Evil, MPAA = Evil, RIAA = Evil; with anything else incorporated to try and fit those equations into the topic at hand
- Some type of reference to the size of one's ProN collection, the amount of ProN that can be stored on the gadget or technology in question, or the ProN industry itself being the first to make good sue of the new technology or gadget in question (ergo: the ProN industry drives technology)
- The posted cliché being self-described as an "obligatory" post in the heading area if that particular cliché had not been addressed yet by previous slashdotters. (e.g. "obligatory Beowulf cluster comment")
- Post revealing the fact that the story's homepage had been slashdotted already, culminating towards another post later on with the homepage story itself being copied & pasted verbatim (often with a subsequent post purporting that this is karma whoring, even though the poster admits it is indeed helpful anyways.)
- Remark on the size of some new storage advancement about how many LOC's (Library of Congresses) can fit on it, or any other remark noting how this can be an actual valid unit of data storage measurement.
- A variation of the Zero Wing video game intro dialogue regarding it's broken English translation: "Someone set up us the base....we have every ZIG, make your time".....blah, blah, blah.
- Very soon lists such as this will be clichés as well.
- Similarly noted and additional clichés may be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subculture
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf Cluster imagines you!