Re:This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
by floren on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:56PM
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"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
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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".
Basically you don't hear about them any more because it's all Beowulf clusters now.