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Building an HPC Linux cluster has gotten simpler, Beowulf leader says
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| Donald Becker, an MIT grad who in the 1990s pioneered high-performance
| computing (HPC) with commodity components, returned to his alma mater
| recently to update the Boston Linux & Unix User Group (BLU) on the state of
| HPC and his work to make Linux clusters more powerful, more user-friendly and
| easier to manage.
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| Now Becker is the CTO of Scyld Software and its parent company, Penguin
| Computing Inc.. In 1994, he helped launch NASA's Beowulf Project which
| demonstrated that $50,000 of commodity hardware, clustered together, could
| equal the performance of a $1 million Cray supercomputer. For his work, he
| received the Gordon Bell Prize from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and
| Electronics Engineers Inc.) Computer Society in 1997.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1322424,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/63ptvc
Google's founders built a cluster of Linux boxes in their basement/garage to
start the company that drives Microsoft mad.
Recent:
Purdue IT Staff Builds Supercomputer In A Half Day
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| Dwight McKay, Purdue's director of systems engineering, said Steele is
| running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. It's running a number of scientific
| programming libraries, typical scientific applications, and the cfengine, an
| open source management tool for running a large cluster.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207601782
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