Beowulf for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Creating a Virtual Supercomputer by Running a Lot of PCs Together"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Beowulf is the strange name for the technique of running a bunch of personal computers together, as a cluster, in parallel, to form one supercomputer. Beowulf can supposedly enable anybody with access to lots of PCs and some Ethernet cable to process in the gigaflop (billions of operations per second) range.

Beowulf began at 1994 at the Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS)

Thomas Sterling and Don Decker clustered 16 Intel processors connected by 10 Mbps Ethernet.

Linux is now the operating system often chosen for these projects. The only real hang-up is that regular software is not designed to be run on such a system, so to get real performance you have to know how to program an application to take advantage of this clustering process.

These are the Beowulf basics.

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