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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:58:27 -0000
From:      "David De Silva" <david@desilva.co.uk>
To:        "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc:        <freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Web resources
Message-ID:  <009701bf4c8d$00b89620$174c13d4@imperium.tele2.net.uk>
References:  <Pine.SGI.4.10.9912220740530.277238-100000@acl.lanl.gov>

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> besides, I don't even LIKE beowulf as a name. Can't we do better?

I'd suggest Zaphod but it might imply it's restricted to 2 nodes :-)=20

Hydra's good. Or Borg?

> beowulf + freebsd is a misnomer, since beowulf is pretty specifically
> linux (just ask don becker -- I did).=20

Extract from the Beowulf mailing list FAQ at =
http://www.dnaco.net/~kragen/beowulf-faq.txt

1. What's a Beowulf? [1999-05-13]

It's a kind of high-performance massively parallel computer built
primarily out of commodity hardware components, running a free-software
operating system like Linux or FreeBSD, interconnected by a private
high-speed network.

/David



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