Beowulf Clusters
Daniel A. Reed · 2014
This paper reviews the technical and social events that stimulated early deployments of large-scale Beowulf-style clusters for production scientific and engineering use at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the subsequent development of the NSF TeraGrid. Insights and lessons from these experiences have shaped further development of high-performance computing environments and exposed a set of research challenges for creation of exascale computing systems.