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Huh, what ever happened to Beowulf clusters... I guess they were superseded by the whole Hadoop and mapreduce stuff...

• elihu 8y ago
  We just started calling them clusters.
• chrisseaton 8y ago
  Beowulf was about the hardware and the interconnect - both being commodity. Not about the software. Most Hadoop etc runs on Beowulf I’d imagine. Clusters used to use more custom hardware and interconnects - that’s now the exception rather than the norm. You still find that in some HPC situations but most people manage with commodity cloud.
  • walshemj 8y ago
    Depends on cluster design and size big ones use exotic interconnects not your traditional network design