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Wired: Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 7, 2004

“Who’s afraid of the big bad Beowulf?

“No one now, but 10 years ago the scientific community greeted
the first Beowulf supercomputer cluster with fear and loathing.
‘The initial reaction of the supercomputer-oriented scientific
community to the Beowulf project was very negative,’ says Donald
Becker, co-founder of the original Beowulf project…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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