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An anonymous reader writes "Beowulf clustering turns 10 years old, and, in this interview, creator Donald Becker talks about how Beowulf can handle high-end computing on a par with supercomputers."
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Can you imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
I sure can!
imagine (Score:3, Funny)
Candle Cluster (Score:3, Funny)
Happy Anniversary... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can you imagine... (Score:2, Funny)
"Hey, can you imagine a beowulf cluster of er... beowulf cluters?"
Doesn't quite work, you see.
Re:Obligatory... (Score:1, Funny)
Oh yeah and *groan* with regard to that joke! =-P
Beowulf seems older than that (Score:5, Funny)
...doesn't it to you? I mean how long have you been sick of the "imagine a beowulf cluster of those" comments? Doesn't seem like only 10 years would make me that sick of it.
Imagine All... (Score:1, Funny)
Imagine all the clusters
It's easy if you try
With Linux on them
Computing Particles in Sky
Imagine all Beowulf
Crunching in harmony (AhIahahah...)
imagine (Score:5, Funny)
re: can you imagine... (Score:2, Funny)
now, imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdotters having that same thought...
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Re:news? (Score:3, Funny)
In other news: "Ford says their cars are just as good as BMW's and Emachine states their computers rival Apple's"
In Soviet Russia... (Score:2, Funny)
How do you mean, fast? (Score:3, Funny)
If your metric is moving around data, as opposed to how many no-ops you can do a second while waiting for your data to get there.
Re:actually... (Score:3, Funny)
9. Profit!!
Imagine.... (Score:5, Funny)
It's easy if you try,
No adapter below us,
Above us only loopback,
Imagine all the computers
computing for themselves...
Imagine there's no internet,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to download or upload for,
No porn too,
Imagine all the computers
computing pi in peace...
Imagine no tokens,
I wonder if you can,
No need for ethernet or tcpip,
A brotherhood of computer,
Imagine all the computers
Sharing nothing at all...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm the only one,
I hope some day you'll leave us,
And the computers will computer alone.
Re:Beowulf seems older than that (Score:3, Funny)
Depends... it only took 4 weeks for Floridians to get real sick of hurricanes. :-)
Re:Obligatory... (Score:4, Funny)
Ok
Re:imagine (Score:3, Funny)
With a little editing that could describe most /. readers:
imagine a lone geek sitting by himself not talking to anyone...
A few Slashdot clichés: (Score:5, Funny)
- How long until the RIAA sues them into oblivion once they find out how may MP3's you can put on one?
- "Can you put Linux on it?" or "Yes, but will it run Linux?"
- "Yeah, but does it run Doom3?" or "And it still won't run Doom3."
- Any comment regarding "Duke Nukem Forever" taking literally 'forever' and being termed 'vaporware'.
- I am not buying one until they support ".ogg".
- I for one welcome our new (insert name of company mentioned in post or story) overlords.
- "George Lucas raped my childhood" or "Greedo shoots first" comments on any story incorporating the Star Wars franchise.
- A comment including these 3 components in any order: Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, hot grits, one's pants.
- Microsoft = Evil, MPAA = Evil, RIAA = Evil; with anything else incorporated to try and fit those equations into the topic at hand
- Some type of reference to the size of one's ProN collection, the amount of ProN that can be stored on the gadget or technology in question, or the ProN industry itself being the first to make good sue of the new technology or gadget in question (ergo: the ProN industry drives technology)
- The posted cliché being self-described as an "obligatory" post in the heading area if that particular cliché had not been addressed yet by previous slashdotters. (e.g. "obligatory Beowulf cluster comment")
- Post revealing the fact that the story's homepage had been slashdotted already, culminating towards another post later on with the homepage story itself being copied & pasted verbatim (often with a subsequent post purporting that this is karma whoring, even though the poster admits it is indeed helpful anyways.)
- Remark on the size of some new storage advancement about how many LOC's (Library of Congresses) can fit on it, or any other remark noting how this can be an actual valid unit of data storage measurement.
- A variation of the Zero Wing video game intro dialogue regarding it's broken English translation: "Someone set up us the base....we have every ZIG, make your time".....blah, blah, blah.
- Very soon lists such as this will be clichés as well.
- Similarly noted and additional clichés may be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subculture
Re:Obligatory... (Score:2, Funny)