Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe
by wolf550e on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:48PM
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Change it to "made famous by Google". Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google?
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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:56PM
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> Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google?
That approach is, in scientific computing, at least as old as Beowulf (1994, four years before Google was founded), the prototypical system from which we get the term “beowulf cluster”.