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Most supercomputer clusters are divided into compute-nodes vs management nodes. I'd have to imagine the language was popular as far back as the 1980s in the hig
by dragontamer 3y ago
Most supercomputer clusters are divided into compute-nodes vs management nodes. I'd have to imagine the language was popular as far back as the 1980s in the high-performance computing realm...
- marcosdumay 3y agoThere are also IO nodes, that talk to disks and network. Mainframes use those names too. I'm not sure what name blade hacks use (yeah, I'm out of a datacenter for that long), but they have those things too.
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoSupercomputers were not clusters like we have today until the mid-90's. In the first written description of how to build a Beowulf cluster, by Radajewski and Eadline in 1998 [1], the management node was refered to as the "server node" and the compute nodes as "client nodes". I believe the term "compute node" was first used in the context of the Intel ASCI Red supercomputer that was installed at Sandia in 1997. This later led to the Cray XT3, XT4, XT5 families of machines that used the same terminology. But I believe the term was not in generic usage outside of those specific supercomputers until around 2005-2010. [1] https://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/archive/Beowulf-HOWTO.html#ss2.2 https://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/archive/Beowulf-HOW...