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It reminds me of the Beowulf clusters of the 90s-2000s, that were all the rage at some point, then slowly lost ground... I remember many friends tinkering with
by NitpickLawyer 1y ago
It reminds me of the Beowulf clusters of the 90s-2000s, that were all the rage at some point, then slowly lost ground... I remember many friends tinkering with some variant of those, we had one in Uni, and there were even some linux distros dedicated to the concept.
- gary_0 1y agoOh yeah, the "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" Slashdot meme! I miss those days. At least the "can it run Doom?" meme is still alive and kicking.
- unregistereddev 1y agoDitto! It reminded me of the time in college when I built a Beowulf cluster from recently-retired Pentium II desktops. Was it fast? No. But that wasn't the point. I was learning about distributed computing.
- dekhn 1y agoBeowulf style clusters went on to dominate supercomputing.