The cluster will serve faculty and students who run computationally intensive programs by offering processing time on its high-performance computers. The cluster will also allow OIT to provide ...

Founded in 1988, the Space Technology Hall of Fame recognizes the life-changing technologies emerging from global space programs; honors the scientists, engineers, and innovators responsible; and ...

For a few weeks in October 2003, hundreds of Virginia Tech students congregated not for a protest, but to create "Big Mac," a supercomputer made of 1,100 Apple G5s. The group of computers, known as a ...

In the world of High Performance Computing (HPC), Beowulf clustering stands in a class of its own. Beowulf is an approach to building a supercomputer by means of clustering commodity off-the-shelf ...

A friend of mine said he ran across something like this when he was reading up on making a Beowulf cluster. At the time I thought why bother. Now though I have several computers at work to play with ...

I'm really interested in building a Beowulf cluster, but I haven't really found an practical use for myself. I mean, I see uses in high availablity servers, modeling, etc... But what use to a small ...

The Windows stuff still blows and is really more of a clusterf@$% then anything else. Linux has breathed life into clustering with Beowulf since the early 2000’s. If you are looking to build out a ...

Donald Becker started the Beowulf Parallel Workstation Project in 1993 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The project’s goal was to cheaply mimic the computing power of expensive mainframes and ...

On Tuesday, Linux hardware company Penguin Computing announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, maker of the Linux-based Beowulf clustering software. Terms of the deal were not ...

Linux server company Penguin Computing Inc. is acquiring Beowolf cluster software company Scyld Computing Corp. in a deal that will merge two niche companies under one roof. Under the deal, San ...