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Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by fouc on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:20PM (#27816230)
Oh man, Beowulf clusters, I forgot all about those. How come we never hear about them anymore?
Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by floren on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:56PM (#27816431)
"Running MPI programs on a cluster of commodity hardware" was perhaps a sufficiently novel idea to warrant a unique name back in the 90s, but these days it's more or less the standard for all but the most exotic and expensive of scientific computing... and even those expensive custom supercomputers tend to still be x86 processors running MPI code.

Basically you don't hear about them any more because it's all Beowulf clusters now.

Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by lupire on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:02PM (#27817016)
I think the "Beowulf" name (the name of the first well known computer cluster) was mostly a Slashdot meme. As Slashdot faded, so did the name "Beowulf".
Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by efreak on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:15PM (#27945515)
Inferno is available for Nintendo DS, more info at https://gamebrew.org/wiki/Inferno_DS I can verify that it runs, at least, on a Nintendo DSi, though I never actually did anything with it and didn't have another DSi (or enough knowledge) to find out if it could actually network.
Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by psyc on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:28PM (#27816286)
I'm guessing because recurring one-liners don't do as well here as they did on SlashDot.
Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by stjohnswarts on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:42PM (#27817434)
Because now they're just clusters. Lots of people make hobby ones out of rpi's to tinker with
Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by UncleSlacky on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:00AM (#27819895)
Those are Brambles: https://elinux.org/Bramble
Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator by efreak on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:19PM (#27945536)
This is why I originally got an odroid-c1 instead. IIRC newer rpi don't run Ethernet over the USB bus, so there's more bandwidth available.