[Beowulf] How to make a BeagleBoard Elastic R Beowulf Cluster in a Briefcase

[Charlie Peck]

> lsi wrote:
>> Cute, but my question is, what use is one of these homegrown platforms?

How about education, outreach and training?  There are at least a couple of projects [1] that use small, home-built clusters in e.g. for undergraduate CS education, faculty education/re-training for parallel programming and cluster computing, and the like.  Microsoft [2] and others have also used platforms like this to explore low-power, on-demand compute platforms.

charlie

[1] MicroWulf, LittleFe
[2] http://www.greenm3.com/2009/02/microsoft-research-builds-intel-atom-servers.html