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by icco 1332 days ago
Beowulfs were huge hacks back in the day, but are similar to most super computers. The main difference from how many think of compute clusters these days is it is managed as a single machine, so historically needed identical hardware. Parallel processing and concurrency used to be more rare :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster