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[Beowulf] Practicality of a Beowulf Cluster

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J Bickhard jbickhard at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 06:57:09 PDT 2009


So, I was thinking of making a cluster, but wondered: what are the
practical uses of one? I mean, you can't exactly run Windows on these
things, and it looks like they're mostly for parallel computing of
complex algorithms.

Would an average Joe like me have a use for a cluster?



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