| ▲ | NitpickLawyer 4 days ago | |
It reminds me of the Beowulf clusters of the 90s-2000s, that were all the rage at some point, then slowly lost ground... I remember many friends tinkering with some variant of those, we had one in Uni, and there were even some linux distros dedicated to the concept. | ||
| ▲ | gary_0 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Oh yeah, the "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" Slashdot meme! I miss those days. At least the "can it run Doom?" meme is still alive and kicking. | ||
| ▲ | unregistereddev 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Ditto! It reminded me of the time in college when I built a Beowulf cluster from recently-retired Pentium II desktops. Was it fast? No. But that wasn't the point. I was learning about distributed computing. | ||
| ▲ | dekhn 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Beowulf style clusters went on to dominate supercomputing. | ||