[SunRescue] Re: New Netra

[Alan Rubin]

well, it is just my opinion, but beowulf has become more of a term
referring to generic clustered computing environments, particularly
commodity/off-the-shelf ones.

alan

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Reagen Ward wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:27:02PM -0600, Mike Hebel wrote:
> 
> > You could build one hell of a streaming MP3 player for your home network if
> > you could get the between-nodes latency low enough or buffer it properly.
> 
> Probably a lot easier and cheaper to just have a fast single CPU machine. :)
> 
> > There's probably programs that allow you to use a cluster to do distributed
> > video rendering.
> 
> Probably, as video rendering fits into a distributed memory model pretty well
> and can work well in an explicitly parallel environment.  I know that POVRAY
> has a PVM patch, could be interesting.
> 
> > You might be able to use a cluster for one hell of a load-balancer if I
> > understand the technology correctly.
> 
> Sure, but not via Beowulf.
> 
> > The possibilities are endless. ;-)
> 
> You could vaporize a human target from space!  No, seriously, the applications
> of a metacomputer are great and many, just not necessarily via Beowulf.
> 
> My main point is that I see Beowulf mentioned a LOT, even see folks talking
> about building Beowulf clusters out of piles of old 486 machines (and they're
> not joking sometimes!), but the applications are rather limited due to the
> design / requirements of an MPI system.
> 
> Reagen
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