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iMac Beowulf Cluster Comes to Life

Posted by timothy on from the taste-the-rainbow dept.

AmigaAvenger writes "Finally a good use for all those old IMacs that many organizations have laying around collecting dust. We have set up a 5 node (4+1 controller) iMac beowulf cluster, which is appropriately named Skittles, and is running PPC Yellowdog Linux, with MPICH 1.2.6 cluster message passing software."

2 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. X-Grid by gellenburg · · Score: 4, Informative

    With X-Grid coming standar with 10.4 doing this in the future will be child's play.

  2. Re:iMac Beowulf Cluster? Yum! by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 3, Informative

    FYI...

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