Beowulf Cluster – A Poor Man’s Supercomputer

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V Rajaraman¹ 

[1] Supercomputer Education & Research Centre Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru 560 012

关键词: Parallel computer;    computer cluster;    message passing interface;    Beowulf competition.;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s12045-023-1546-z

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

In this article, I describe the development of the Beowulf cluster,a parallel computer that consists of a network of off-the-shelfpersonal computers interconnected by Ethernet and usesLinux as its operating system. This style of building parallelcomputers has become very popular as fairly high-performancecomputers can be built in a university laboratory at a reasonablecost. Eighty percent of supercomputers listed in theTOP500 list of the fastest computers in the world are clusters.

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