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Reminds me of the good old “imagine a beowulf cluster of these” jokes. For those who don’t remember, the origin of the joke came about shortly after the first
by amenghra 5y ago
Reminds me of the good old “imagine a beowulf cluster of these” jokes.
For those who don’t remember, the origin of the joke came about shortly after the first beowulf clusters were announced - thereafter every time a new computer was announced on Slashdot, somebody would say "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these".
- p_l 5y agoDon't forget that one of the milestone things in Beowulf cluster was Stone Soup cluster, and the whole Beowulf cluster thing was heavily about "we don't have money for supercomputer, we hacked something from random junk"
- scns 5y agoLike Google did in the early days.
- josefx 5y agoI thought early google essentially ran on a university cluster?
- p_l 5y agoEarly early google seems to have used scavenged machines from university as soon as it outgrew what was essentially a phd project? I recall a photo of random assortment of Sun sparcstations and the like. Much later was the infamous cardboard cluster.
- liotier 5y agoMy jam was rather Openmosix, but same vibe: throw whatever you have into the cluster and be happy with the inefficiency because those resources would sit unused otherwise !