When the topic of history comes up I always suggest getting it from the source:
Beowulf Breakthroughs: The Path to Commodity Supercomputing by Tom Sterling http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1378 Plus I always point back to the definition introduced in the original "How to Build a Beowulf book (Thomas Sterling, John Salmon, Donald J. Becker and Daniel F. Savarese, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-69218-X): A Beowulf is a collection of personal computers interconnected by widely-available networking technology running one of several open source, Unix- like operating systems. Note that "personal computers" was used as the whole "x86 server" market had not even developed (think Pentium Pro era) as the web was in it's infancy. -- Doug -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
