Got a Linux Server? Thank a Beowulf.
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Tuesday October 12 2004 @ 11:11PM EDT
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Linux Journal: Ten years ago, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling built a 16-node cluster, the original Beowulf, and started Linux and commodity hardware on a program of relentless improvement.
In May 1965, IBM Chairman T. J. Watson, Jr., wrote of large scientific computers, “at some point between two and three years ago it became evident that the fallout from the building of such large-scale machines was so great as to justify their continuance at almost any cost” (on Dr Mark Smotherman's site at www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html). That doesn't mean that high-performance computing (HPC) startups have an easy time entering the enterprise market. From Control Data to Thinking Machines, history shows that if you concentrate on winning in HPC, you don't get the skills to cross over to regular business customers.
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