Re: beowulf

[Mark Bishop <mark@vincent.silug.org>]

Is there a way if I bring my machine I might be able to participate in the
cluster?  What would I need with software, hardware?




On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> 
> Dr. Michael Sullivan said:
> [...]
> > 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.
> 
> As it happens, a beowulf-ish cluster is one of the things we'll be
> demonstrating at Saturday's InstallFest in Springfield.  The cluster
> will be doing distributed 3D rendering while acting as a distributed
> file server.  Others have used workstations (used for word processing
> & such) for their clusters, essentially getting a supercomputer for
> free.  Quite cool stuff.  Yet another reason why Everyone Should Run
> Linux (tm).  ;-)
> 
> Steve
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