Beowulf cluster

English 2015 August 18 right|thumb|A Beowulf cluster Etymology So called because Beowulf is described as having ang þrittiges / manna mægencræft on his mundgripe Thirty men’s strength in his hand-grip,975-1025, Anonymous, Beowulf, 1894, Alfred John Wyatt (editor), Beowulf: VI, ll. 379–80. approximately reflecting the number of nodes in the cluster. Pronunciation en en-au-Beowulf cluster.ogg AU Noun en computing A cluster of standard personal computers linked by a local area network, usually on the order of 10 nodes. en 1999 Rajkumar Buyya High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and systems 641 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wrZQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Beowulf+cluster%22%7C%22Beowulf+clusters%22&dq=%22Beowulf+cluster%22%7C%22Beowulf+clusters%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nFRzUvLKBcmmkgWwroDoDw&redir_esc=y One day, all of your bank and credit card transactions may be processed by Beowulf clusters. 2001, A. Grado, et al., The BEOWFI Project: Reducing WFI Data with a Beowulf Cluster, IAU Commission 9 Working Group on Sky Surveys, The New Era of Wide Field Astronomy: Proceedings of a Conference, page 304, With the use of a beowulf cluster the time to process the large amount of data available for the BEOWFI project will be reduced, and the project will also demonstrate the effectiveness of using beowulf clusters in wide field imaging astronomy. en 2009 Lawrence A. Tomei Information Communication Technologies for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Developments http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2VA0EWDFT6oC&q=%22Beowulf+cluster%22%7C%22Beowulf+clusters%22&dq=%22Beowulf+cluster%22%7C%22Beowulf+clusters%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nFRzUvLKBcmmkgWwroDoDw&redir_esc=y page number not shown To this end, a Beowulf cluster is constructed, configured, and tested using 15 similar computers and 1 newer, faster server using the MPI. References en eponyms