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my first beowolf cluster, I built because I wanted to improve my pentium 486's chances at doing well in some random FOSS benchmark (PiMark? it calculated pi.... and you could 'donate' cpu runtime to help calculate more digits of pi.) It was cobbled out of my dad's spare part's rack.
Should have seen my dad's face when he realied why i built the beowolf.... "You mean... you did this. FOR PI??"("Okay, that's actually cool.")
Yo, reading your comment, I realized your dad raised a cool af kid.
Hehe, that might actually have been more of the Uncle’s influence.
He’s the one that started me on the science fiction addiction- when I got into his (then-complete) collection on VHS. I found them and started. Binge watching them. Got to Trouble With tribbles when I was found out- and then it was my Uncle who was like “oh! That’s my favorite. Rewind it while I go make popcorn!”
"Beowulf Cluster" It's mine first time learning about it, in my head I was like yeah with name like that I don't expect anything less 🤭, Some macho dude shouting" I am Beowulf 🗡️💪, here eat some pie's 🥧I made"🤣.
Jokes aside I think it is really cool you were able to achieve that with just some spare parts. It is a good feeling when you help to contribute something meaningful. Really impressive 👍.
you have to understand, my dad's a unix sysops guy. it was quite a lot of spare parts... (mostly machines older than my 486, which was also hand-me-down.)
Also, that imagery might be closer to reality...foam sword and all.
It's a pretty cool story, I can imagine being introduce to all sort of pc/electronics must have really foster your curiosity for computing.