Beowulf – 2

• PRO's

  • Built assembling off-the-shelf components
  • Easy to grow up
  • Standard environment (Linux)
  • Lot of software (management, communication, etc.)

• CON's

  • Built assembling off-the-shelf components
  • Inter node communication can be a bottleneck
  • Programs must be written with parallelism built-in

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