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>"... the non-web clusters at Google and Facebook to all be spiritual descendants of the original Beowulf cluster." I was intrigued by this comment. Could you
by bogomipz 9y ago
>"... the non-web clusters at Google and Facebook to all be spiritual descendants of the original Beowulf cluster."
I was intrigued by this comment. Could you elaborate on this? Are there specific concepts from Beowulf that FB's Tupperware and Google's Borg borrowed?
- zrail 9y agoThe entirety of the Beowulf concept is a cluster of commodity machines networked together that can work together to perform some kind of task. It's pretty general. The original Beowulf-style clusters ran things like mosix to present a single system image for applications but as far as I can tell that was never a defining characteristic.
- bogomipz 9y agoThanks, yes that's pretty broad, makes sense. Cheers.