cluster of Linux based PC's, using commodity hardware and open source software
a cluster of very cheap Linux machines, hooked up through a local network and using specialized software to work like a very expensive parallel computer
a collection of personal computers (PCs) interconnected by widely available networking technology running any one of several open-source Unix-like operating systems
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a personal supercomputer made of a number of interconnected commodity Personal Computers to form a massively parallel processor
This is a cluster of computers connected to a high-speed private network and running Linux, FreeBSD or another free OS using software to function like a single massively parallel computer. All nodes in the system are dedicated to running cluster jobs, and do not function as client machines. A Beowulf cluster is designed for high speed over reliability. Typically, there is only one node that is connected outside of the private network.
An approach to building a supercomputer by networking many computers together.
Beowulf is a design for high-performance parallel computing clusters on inexpensive personal computer hardware. Originally developed by Thomas L. Sterling and Donald Becker at NASA, Beowulf systems are now deployed worldwide, chiefly in support of scientific computing.