[Beowulf] Practicality of a Beowulf Cluster

[Glen Beane]

What use is a screwdriver if you don't have any screws?

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:39 PM, "J Bickhard" <jbickhard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin  
> Computing
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf