On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Lux, James P wrote:
Beowulf -> the definition evolves.. But.. I'd say it's a bunch of interconnected commodity computers intended to form a single computational resource. Some would add "running open source software" Commodity is
Some would, and it absolutely is in the original definition and perhaps even worth fighting for, or about. Not necessarily ONLY open source software, but the operating system should be open source if nothing else.
important. It's not special purpose hardware, but leverages the economies of scale to minimize cost. Bunch of interconnected is important.(no vector processors). Single computational resource -> you can devote the entire
No SINGLE vector processors. A cluster of systems containing vector processors is just fine...;-) rgb
cluster to just one problem, as opposed to, say, a mass of transaction processing boxes or web servers in a high availability cluster. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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