So, this did my head in this morning. What exactly is the difference
between a Beowulf cluster and a render farm? Specifically. There, I said
it (at the risk of sounding like an idiot).
From my memory a Beowulf cluster is a bunch of diskless dump systems with
cpu and ram that are networked, given access to libraries and told to
process stuff sent to them by a server... or am I missing something.
I seem to remember NewTek referring to Screamernet as a Beowulf cluster at
some point in the late 90's/early 2000's.
It has been a while....
J
-----Original Message----- From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Greg Whynott Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 6:35 PM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Cc: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] Google Data Center
On 07/06/2012 11:44 AM, Mark wrote: > but ended up building our own Beowulf cluster.
wow there is a word i hadn't heard in a few years.. Are people still using beowulf clusters?
take care, greg
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