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The name comes from the legend of Beowulf.
How come? The relationship between a superhuman warrior and distributed computing seems somewhat vague to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.93.217.7 ( talk • contribs) 01:21, 18 February 2005
There are constant humorous references to Beowulf Cluster on slashdot.com. Will someone explain what the inside joke is, and what is so funny about it? User:Prophetben 8 August 2005
I removed the two examples of @home projects because they are not Beowulf clusters. They are examples of clusters and distributed computing but not Beowulf. Lotu 21:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I was still left with a few unanswered questions - mainly, simply "Why?" - the answer I assume is performance related, but it would be nice to know more about that - e.g. optimum number of machines in the cluster, How performance increases per machine etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.189.184.57 ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 28 March 2006
What is nearly unlimited? 10^10, 10^100? Non-sensical statement — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.83.170 ( talk • contribs) 12:22, 13 July 2006
I reverted the caption of an image from "low cost home built" back to "home build". Two things: first, "build" is used by engineers as a noun as in this case, meaning "the built thing" (as opposed to "building" which connotes something large like a house). Also, "low-cost" is redundant with the definition of Beowulf. I don't like to be so picky (there are plenty of editors around who specialize in that :-) but since both elements of the change were a bit weak I just reverted. Pete St.John 16:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was LyX. Gronky 02:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Is Apple's XGrid a Beowulf cluster? It's distributed, UNIX-based and FOSS on the underside. Xgrid's page mentions it ran on OPENSTEP as well, so there must have been FOSS implementaiton of Xgrid as well... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.248.233 ( talk) 23:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
hi..!
I read an article on linking Beowulf clusters with Microsoft Windows using a middleware called Active computing interface (ACI). I would like to know, whether it is possible to work on Beowulf clusters with Windows as a platform? and if it is, can anyone tell me more technical details of it? Do we still call it a Beowulf Cluster?
The link for the article is: http://hpcnc.cpe.ku.ac.th/publication/publication/Publication%20Files/LINKING%20BEOWULF%20CLUSTERS%20AND%20WINDOWS%20ENVIRONMENT%20USING%20A%20MIDDLEWARE%20APPROACH.pdf
--- Priyank. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.7.84.3 ( talk) 23:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
I deleted an external link to an undergraduate's blog about his intention to build a beowulf. It looks like he's doing a good thing, but it will be much more useful once they've actually built something and have some experience to write about. Also he might want to find an English major to help him spruce up the verbage, if he wants to meaningfully share his experience. So I wish them luck but nothing for us just yet. Pete St.John ( talk) 20:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
OSCAR is not an example of MPI software. OSCAR is a set of packages that are useful in setting up and managing a beowulf-type cluster. It includes several MPI packages, but you are not required to install all or any of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.157.240.2 ( talk) 02:21, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
This is mentioned under Operating systems and I found it rather silly because you can setup an MPI2 Beowulf cluster on pretty much any POSIX operating system that can compile the MPICH2 package, or any other such package. So for example I have a Beowulf cluster on FreeBSD but FreeBSD is not listed. I just don't see how Dragonfly BSD would be "designed" to run a Beowulf cluster. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.209.23.234 ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 25 April 2011
The definition seems like a long quote. I feel like it could be better understood if someone goes through each of the paragraph and simplifies it in their own words, still keeping a reference. Anyone up for it or have any objections? Cleanelephant ( talk) 22:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Around 1998 I was building a commercial laser-printer raster image processor (RIP) consisting of five (5) COTS motherboards connected by Ethernet, and built on Beowolf ideas. At the time, a key technology was to bond several Ethernet channels per processing node into a higher bandwidth connection. As I was not doing this, there was an internal question of the legitimacy of calling our system "based on Beowolf". Is an enhanced communication channel part of the Beowolf definition? foxkid ( talk) 15:27, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Back in the mid-80s I did some computer work at JPL. At that time I heard some of the other computer guys talking about setting up a hypercube. When I asked what that referred to, I was told that it was a form of cluster where the computers were (conceptually, not literally) set on the vertices of a hypercube and only capable of communicating with each other along the edges. Assuming that the proper software is used, is it possible to make one that's also a Beowulf cluster? If so, would it be most appropriate to mention it here, at Hypercube internetwork topology or both? JDZeff ( talk) 00:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
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The name comes from the legend of Beowulf.
How come? The relationship between a superhuman warrior and distributed computing seems somewhat vague to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.93.217.7 ( talk • contribs) 01:21, 18 February 2005
There are constant humorous references to Beowulf Cluster on slashdot.com. Will someone explain what the inside joke is, and what is so funny about it? User:Prophetben 8 August 2005
I removed the two examples of @home projects because they are not Beowulf clusters. They are examples of clusters and distributed computing but not Beowulf. Lotu 21:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I was still left with a few unanswered questions - mainly, simply "Why?" - the answer I assume is performance related, but it would be nice to know more about that - e.g. optimum number of machines in the cluster, How performance increases per machine etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.189.184.57 ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 28 March 2006
What is nearly unlimited? 10^10, 10^100? Non-sensical statement — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.83.170 ( talk • contribs) 12:22, 13 July 2006
I reverted the caption of an image from "low cost home built" back to "home build". Two things: first, "build" is used by engineers as a noun as in this case, meaning "the built thing" (as opposed to "building" which connotes something large like a house). Also, "low-cost" is redundant with the definition of Beowulf. I don't like to be so picky (there are plenty of editors around who specialize in that :-) but since both elements of the change were a bit weak I just reverted. Pete St.John 16:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was LyX. Gronky 02:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Is Apple's XGrid a Beowulf cluster? It's distributed, UNIX-based and FOSS on the underside. Xgrid's page mentions it ran on OPENSTEP as well, so there must have been FOSS implementaiton of Xgrid as well... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.248.233 ( talk) 23:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
hi..!
I read an article on linking Beowulf clusters with Microsoft Windows using a middleware called Active computing interface (ACI). I would like to know, whether it is possible to work on Beowulf clusters with Windows as a platform? and if it is, can anyone tell me more technical details of it? Do we still call it a Beowulf Cluster?
The link for the article is: http://hpcnc.cpe.ku.ac.th/publication/publication/Publication%20Files/LINKING%20BEOWULF%20CLUSTERS%20AND%20WINDOWS%20ENVIRONMENT%20USING%20A%20MIDDLEWARE%20APPROACH.pdf
--- Priyank. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.7.84.3 ( talk) 23:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
I deleted an external link to an undergraduate's blog about his intention to build a beowulf. It looks like he's doing a good thing, but it will be much more useful once they've actually built something and have some experience to write about. Also he might want to find an English major to help him spruce up the verbage, if he wants to meaningfully share his experience. So I wish them luck but nothing for us just yet. Pete St.John ( talk) 20:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
OSCAR is not an example of MPI software. OSCAR is a set of packages that are useful in setting up and managing a beowulf-type cluster. It includes several MPI packages, but you are not required to install all or any of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.157.240.2 ( talk) 02:21, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
This is mentioned under Operating systems and I found it rather silly because you can setup an MPI2 Beowulf cluster on pretty much any POSIX operating system that can compile the MPICH2 package, or any other such package. So for example I have a Beowulf cluster on FreeBSD but FreeBSD is not listed. I just don't see how Dragonfly BSD would be "designed" to run a Beowulf cluster. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.209.23.234 ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 25 April 2011
The definition seems like a long quote. I feel like it could be better understood if someone goes through each of the paragraph and simplifies it in their own words, still keeping a reference. Anyone up for it or have any objections? Cleanelephant ( talk) 22:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Around 1998 I was building a commercial laser-printer raster image processor (RIP) consisting of five (5) COTS motherboards connected by Ethernet, and built on Beowolf ideas. At the time, a key technology was to bond several Ethernet channels per processing node into a higher bandwidth connection. As I was not doing this, there was an internal question of the legitimacy of calling our system "based on Beowolf". Is an enhanced communication channel part of the Beowolf definition? foxkid ( talk) 15:27, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Back in the mid-80s I did some computer work at JPL. At that time I heard some of the other computer guys talking about setting up a hypercube. When I asked what that referred to, I was told that it was a form of cluster where the computers were (conceptually, not literally) set on the vertices of a hypercube and only capable of communicating with each other along the edges. Assuming that the proper software is used, is it possible to make one that's also a Beowulf cluster? If so, would it be most appropriate to mention it here, at Hypercube internetwork topology or both? JDZeff ( talk) 00:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)