 | View Full Version : Beowo(U)lf cluster ?? brands 12-28-2002, 12:09 PM Hello... what exactly is Beowo(U)lf cluster ?? A lot of people talk of owning that...particularly at slashdot ! :) Thanks allan 12-28-2002, 12:26 PM It is a cluster of Linux boxes built using the Beowulf software: http://www.beowulf.org timelord 12-28-2002, 05:07 PM The original people who developed Beowulf went off and formed their own company - http://www.scyld.com/ A Beowulf cluster is a computing cluster - where you take a problem, subdivide it into many pieces, and send to a whole lot of computers. It is really good for things like computer generated graphics and render farms, fluid dynamics, etc. It is not designed to be an "application cluster" (such as an Oracle cluster where you have several servers handling the same database) or a load balancing cluster (good for web serving). And it is no where near an SSI (Single System Image) cluster (the holy grail of clustering). |