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by drcode 2715 days ago
Huh, what ever happened to Beowulf clusters... I guess they were superseded by the whole Hadoop and mapreduce stuff...
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We just started calling them clusters.
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.

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