This is known as a "Beowulf cluster." For information about the nodes in the "Industry" partition of this cluster, please see this page. Fun Fact! In the history of the English language, Beowulf is ...

without running NIS, and so that users do not have to provide passwords for rsh and/or rlogin within the cluster. Using rsh without passwords is necessary for running parallel programs using MPI on ...

You’ll neither run a Beowulf cluster of DigiComp IIs nor will you mine any Bitcoin with one, but it’s definitely one of the more unusual computing devices you could have in your collection.

The facility employs special purpose high-performance computers, such as the Gravity Pipeline Engine (GRAPE), a new Beowulf cluster (128 processors, 128G RAM, 2 TB RAID disk), and a system using ...

For SGI it was the surge in commodity 3D graphics cards in the 1990s alongside affordable (and cluster-capable; insert Beowulf cluster jokes here) server hardware that posed a major problem.

The facility employs special purpose high-performance computers, such as the Gravity Pipeline Engine (GRAPE), a new Beowulf cluster (128 processors, 128G RAM, 2 TB RAID disk), and a system using ...