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Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0 (Wired)
Wired covers
10 years of Beowulf supercomputers. "Who's afraid of the big bad
Beowulf?
No one now, but 10 years ago the scientific community greeted the first Beowulf supercomputer cluster with fear and loathing. "The initial reaction of the supercomputer-oriented scientific community to the Beowulf project was very negative," says Donald Becker, co-founder of the original Beowulf project." (Log in to post comments)
Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0 (Wired) Posted Aug 9, 2004 0:02 UTC (Mon) by gte223j (guest, #6492) [Link] Sweet. I can't believe that they've been around for ten years. I would like to play around and build a small one sometime in the future. It would be a nice little project.
I really believe that commodity supercomputing will increase due to the rapidly falling price of gigabit switches and nics:-) I was surprised yesterday when I saw some gigabit switches for around $22 on pricewatch. wow
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