[bogomipz]

>"... the non-web clusters at Google and Facebook to all be spiritual descendants of the original Beowulf cluster."

I was intrigued by this comment. Could you elaborate on this? Are there specific concepts from Beowulf that FB's Tupperware and Google's Borg borrowed?

[zrail]

The entirety of the Beowulf concept is a cluster of commodity machines networked together that can work together to perform some kind of task. It's pretty general. The original Beowulf-style clusters ran things like mosix to present a single system image for applications but as far as I can tell that was never a defining characteristic.

[bogomipz]

Thanks, yes that's pretty broad, makes sense. Cheers.