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Don'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 mo
by p_l 5y ago
Don'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 !