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

[Michael Di Domenico]

ah, interesting.

this is what i was referring to, which is what i believe is codified
in the "beowulf" book i recall reading.

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2020/it_1.html

but it seems this also exists.  i can't recall offhand whether that
was mentioned in the book or not

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/hpcc/reports/annrpt97/accomps/ess/WW49.html


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:44 AM Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:
>
>
> > 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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