[Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Spark, Julia, OpenMPI etc. - all in one place

[Douglas Eadline]

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:10 AM Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf
> <beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
>>
>> Well, maybe a Beowulf cluster of yugos…
>
> not really that far of a stretch, from what i can recall wasn't the
> first beowulf cluster a smattering of random desktops layout on the
> floor in an office

Actually it was a single small cabinet with 486 processor
motherboards and 10Mbit Ethernet with a hub. There is
a small picture of it on the SC14 Beowulf Bash invite
(in the middle) As I recall we could only find an old
small picture of it.

https://www.clustermonkey.net/Supercomputing/beowulf-bash-invitations-2008-to-present.html

>From there all kinds of configurations appeared.
Including mostly "workstations" on wire shelves
(the differentiation between "desktop" and "server"
was just starting with the introduction of the Pentium-Pro)

For those interested in the Beowulf history you can watch
the short video (fully shareable BTW, sponsored by AMD)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-epcSlAFvI


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Doug

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Doug