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Subject:    Re: [Beowulf] What's the category of Beowulf among Clusters?
From:       Toon Moene <toon () moene ! org>
Date:       2008-12-29 18:48:22
Message-ID: 49591B76.70505 () moene ! org
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Robert G. Brown wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Mark Hahn wrote:
> 
> > > what's the category of Beowulf like clusters?
> > 
> > beowulf is compute clustering using mostly commodity hardware and 
> > mostly open-source software.
> 
> And if you want to be really picky, it should be an architecture that
> "looks like a supercomputer"

"looks like a supercomputer" ?

Funny.

The last time I made a 4-CPU, 64-bit vector machine with 512 MWords of 
memory ready for operations (that description now fits the home machine 
sitting 3 feet from the tip of my nose), I had a Cray engineer on site 
to guide me through the process.

"Supercomputer" - hah, humbug.

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