[ Thanks to Kate
Evans-Correia for this link. ]
“On the 10th anniversary of your creation of Beowulf,
can you reflect on its impact on Linux and IT?“Donald Becker: Ten years ago, clustering
independent, commodity-class machines–and building, essentially,
supercomputers out of them–was a controversial idea. At first, we
put Beowulf clusters beside supercomputers to remove some of their
workloads. But, Beowulf clusters are clearly supercomputers in
their own right.“I think that Beowulf and Linux have had a significant
beneficial interaction. Linux was successful with a broad base of
early adopters because it had excellent device support at a time
when other similar operating systems supported only a very limited
selection…”