Beowulf fans, please explain!

O'Regan, Emlyn (
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:09:55 +1000

I've got to confess a couple of sad facts:

  1. I don't know what a Beowulf computer is
  2. I haven't really quite finished my Comp Sci degree (I let the last couple of points just hang there in hyperspace).

I need to confess these things because I am I am trying to finish it off this semester (being the latter half of the tenth year since I began, and my Uni is getting shirty, funny about that). I'm currently trying to find a decent project for one of my final couple of subjects (an IT project unit, maybe that is self evident). All bar one of the proposals that I have been handed by the Uni involve Beowulfs (monitoring, some file system work for linux) and all bar one of those involve Linux.

So what is a Beowulf? Why does everyone love them so much?

Emlyn, underqualified