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It reminds me of the Beowulf clusters of the 90s-2000s, that were all the rage at some point, then slowly lost ground... I remember many friends tinkering with some variant of those, we had one in Uni, and there were even some linux distros dedicated to the concept.


Oh yeah, the "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" Slashdot meme! I miss those days. At least the "can it run Doom?" meme is still alive and kicking.


Ditto! It reminded me of the time in college when I built a Beowulf cluster from recently-retired Pentium II desktops.

Was it fast? No. But that wasn't the point. I was learning about distributed computing.


Beowulf style clusters went on to dominate supercomputing.




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