beowulf

["Dr. Michael Sullivan" <mike@nkrs465.math.siu.edu>]

There is an interesting article about Beowulf in the
March 27 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education
on page A32. Beowulf converts a group of PCs into an
inexpensive supercomputer. It was developed by NASA
and is free at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf.

Guess what, it runs under Linux. I think the article
could be a useful tool in convincing university
administrators that they should be hiring Linux experts
as system administrators. Pass it on to your Dean.

Mike Sullivan
Math Dept. SIUC
msulliva@math.siu.edu

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