The Future of High Performance Computing
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Thursday March 15 2007 @ 12:24PM EDT
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Linux Magazine: Over the past few years, this column has covered a wide variety of topics in high-performance computing (HPC), primarily with an eye toward Beowulf-style, Linux clusters. Since the first such commodity clusters were built in the mid- to late-1990s, they have increasingly served as the model for commercial supercomputers. And as supercomputer vendors have died off, the often-struggling vendors that remain are using more commodity components and processors. While the cluster architecture was in use long before the first Beowulfs, clusters now make up almost 73 percent of the fastest supercomputers in the famed "Top 500" list, http://top500.org/ .
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