Re: Questions concerning Alpha clusters running Linux

[Brian Wood <beww intac com>]

Paul Tomblin wrote:
> 
> Quoting Gary A. Allen (gallen@ironbark.arc.nasa.gov):
> > the system has been built and running for a few weeks?  Is using an Ethernet
> > message passing approach the best basis for an Alpha cluster running parallel
> > code?
> 
> That sounds like a Beowulf cluster to me.  Perhaps it's no coincidence that
> the Beowulf stuff was invented by Bruce Becker, also at NASA.  I don't
> remember if he's at Ames, though.  But some of the fastest computing in the
> world is now being done using clusters of Linux boxes connected by Gigabit
> ethernet.  You should do some poking around the net (and around NASA) for
> references to Beowulf (it might be spelt Beowolf?).


Actually you can buy the beowolf (aka Extreme Linux) software from
RedHat. At least they were selling CDs at the recent Expo.

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