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Gayowulf
February 14th, 2001, 14:26
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/tutorial.html

Build your own? :confused:
Koolguy
February 14th, 2001, 17:14
nice..
Coolin
February 14th, 2001, 22:06
What's a Beowulf?
Gayowulf
February 14th, 2001, 23:46
Thats pretty well the same thing i was wondering. i am to lazy to read up on it
LastActionHero
February 15th, 2001, 05:28
well it's a cluster of computers( usually *nix) working together to solve a problem. the advantage is that you can get supercomputer speeds by connecting desktops together in a beowulf cluster. Really really low cost.
LeX
February 15th, 2001, 07:15
So what are the disadvantages?
LastActionHero
February 15th, 2001, 10:34
Practically no disadvantages, well atleast i don't know any, and i can't think of any.
Coolin
February 16th, 2001, 00:49
Could the network bottleneck the speed?