[jerkstate]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

[noipv4]

Just build the same cluster with threadripeers add 1 or 2 extra nodes and you should be even without getting involved in auction and stuff

[drcode]

Huh, what ever happened to Beowulf clusters... I guess they were superseded by the whole Hadoop and mapreduce stuff...

[elihu]

We just started calling them clusters.

[chrisseaton]

Beowulf was about the hardware and the interconnect - both being commodity. Not about the software. Most Hadoop etc runs on Beowulf I’d imagine.

Clusters used to use more custom hardware and interconnects - that’s now the exception rather than the norm. You still find that in some HPC situations but most people manage with commodity cloud.

[walshemj]

Depends on cluster design and size big ones use exotic interconnects not your traditional network design